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gatewaymen

gatewaymen is the plural of gatewayman.

Meaning of gatewayman

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

Questions about gatewaymen

What is gatewaymen the plural of?
Gatewaymen is the plural of gatewayman.

Words near gatewaymen in the dictionary

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

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