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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

Example Sentences

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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

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 Hawkins, Norval A.

It has to be carefully weighed first, and the weighman gets a little from the vendor as his perquisite, which the factory takes from him at the market rate.

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

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.

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