overlooker
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I'm bailiff, overlooker, anything you like to call it.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
Little by little Patsy had slid from being stud-groom into being general overlooker of the business of the place.
From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine
George, who was in charge in the absence of his father, inquired of the old overlooker of the colliery.
From With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Strang, Herbert
And the overlooker answered: ‘To reach the daughters of the knight of Grianaig you must get into this basket, and be drawn by a rope up the face of this rock.’
From The Orange Fairy Book by Various
“Who’ll volunteer to go down with me and send the poor fellows up?” cries the overlooker.
From Frank Oldfield Lost and Found by Wilson, Theodore P.
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