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weighman

American  
[wey-muhn] / ˈweɪ mən /

noun

  • weighmen
    plural
  1. a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.

  2. Mining. a person who weighs coal extracted from a mine, especially in mines where miners are paid according to the weight of the coal they dig.


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Etymology

Origin of weighman

First recorded in 1880–85; weigh 1 + -man

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When Phil was fired for his fight with the weighman, he went to work for the United Mine Workers in Pittsburgh.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1904, a wiry, sandy-haired 18-year-old came up out of a coal mine in western Pennsylvania and swung on the company weighman for cheating.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you exaggerate the importance of the things you have learned, he almost surely will judge you to be an unfair weighman of yourself.

From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

As a weighman of pounds and ounces he only wanted to show the prospect that he was honest.

From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

Your attitude when you are weighing "Yes" and "No" before the prospect should be pleasant, but quiet and serious, as is becoming to a convincing weighman.

From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

United Mine Wrorkers promptly proceeded to elect their own members as check weighmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

A prime item in the armistice allowed miners to select and pay their own weighmen to check the company's weighmen at the tipple scales.

From Time Magazine Archive

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