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gatewayman

gatewayman noun: a kind of road repair worker in coal mines.

Noun

gatewayman (plural gatewaymen)

  1. (historical) A kind of road repair worker in coal mines.
    • I would like to know, for example, the length of time taken to cut the 125 yards of face with the bar machine, the number of fillers employed on the same length of face, and what number of gatewaymen were employed to do the necessary canch work at the face.1926, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), The Mining Engineer, page 281

Forms of gatewayman

pluralgatewaymen

Origin of gatewayman

From gateway + -man.

Questions about gatewayman

What does gatewayman mean?
Gatewayman means a kind of road repair worker in coal mines.
What part of speech is gatewayman?
Gatewayman is a noun.
What is the plural of gatewayman?
The plural of gatewayman is gatewaymen.

Words near gatewayman in the dictionary

  1. gateway drugs
  2. Gateway Island
  3. Gateway to the West
  4. gatewayed
  5. gatewaying
  6. gatewayman
  7. gatewaymen
  8. gateways
  9. Gatewen
  10. gatewise
  11. gatewoman

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