overlooker

/ (ˈəʊvəˌlʊkə) /

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noun

another word (less common) for overseer (def. 1)

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Words nearby overlooker

overlive, overload, overlong, overlook, overlooked, overlooker, overlord, overly, overman, overmantel, overmaster

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How to use overlooker in a sentence

Their cottage was wanted for an overlooker—and they removed to Tideswell, three miles off.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.|Various
Certain plantations there, belonging to his elder brother, were going to ruin for want of an interested overlooker on the spot.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 681, January 13, 1877.|Various
Every person who leaves the room during working-hours, without obtaining permission from the overlooker, forfeits 3d.
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844|Frederick Engels
I parted here with the gentleman who had accompanied me hitherto, and the overlooker went on with me.
Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine|Edwin Waugh

Leaving this house we met with another member of the Relief Committee, who was overlooker of a mill a little way off.
Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine|Edwin Waugh