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overlooker

/ ˈəʊvəˌlʊkə /

noun

  1. another word (less common) for overseer


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Example Sentences

Their cottage was wanted for an overlooker—and they removed to Tideswell, three miles off.

Certain plantations there, belonging to his elder brother, were going to ruin for want of an interested overlooker on the spot.

Every person who leaves the room during working-hours, without obtaining permission from the overlooker, forfeits 3d.

I parted here with the gentleman who had accompanied me hitherto, and the overlooker went on with me.

Leaving this house we met with another member of the Relief Committee, who was overlooker of a mill a little way off.

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