scoop driver

Noun

scoop driver (plural scoop drivers)

1. (machinery) One who operates the scoop that stokes a coal-based generator.
   • The chief stoker who holds the handle and manipulates the scoop is known as the scoop-driver.1896, William John Atkinson Butterfield, Gas Manufacture: The Chemistry of, page 49
   • An unskilled man may, with very little practice, soon qualify himself as a scoop-driver — indeed, men who have been in the retort-house comparatively a few days have, within that short time, been able to do the charging in cases of emergency.1898 May 10, R. Watson, “Charging Apparatus for Small Works”, in The Gas Engineer's Magazine, volume 14, number 264, page 187
2. One who operates an automated mining scoop.
   • After expressing a desire to be a scoop driver, Mr. Collins trained him for this job and Mr. Amburgey began operating the scoop " a couple of weeks " after the opening of the Number 9 mine.1983, United States. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, Decisions - Volume 5; Volume 66, page 717
   • "Got to go, boys," he said, interrupting an impassioned sermon by the scoop driver about the lineage of the University of Louisville's quarterback.2014, Ninie Hammon, Black Sunshine