weighman

American  

[wey-muhn] / ˈweɪ mən /

noun

plural

weighmen

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

Example Sentences

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

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

Some are filling sacks full of the cleaned seed, and hauling them off to the weighman and his clerk.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James

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

From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.

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 Hawkins, Norval A.