lime burner

noun

1. a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.

lime burner

noun

1. a person whose job it is to burn limestone to make lime

Word History and Origins

Origin of lime burner¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50

Example Sentences

He enlisted in the militia, tried camp life with gipsies, and worked as a lime burner in 1817, but in the following year he was obliged to accept parish relief.

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In 1817 he obtained employment as a lime burner at Bridge Casterton, in the neighbouring county of Rutland, where he earned about ten shillings per week.

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The scene is laid at a limekiln in a dark and gloomy wood, where a lime- burner, far from human habitations, is watching his fires at night.

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On the way to his house he met Duclosse the mealman and Garotte the lime- burner.

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You call yourself a man, Jim Hayward, and an honest lime- burner, and a respectable, market-keeping Christen, and yet at six o'clock this morning, instead o' being where you ought to ha' been— at your work, there was neither vell or mark o' thee to be seen!'

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