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spraggers

spraggers is the plural of spragger.

Meaning of spragger

Noun

spragger (plural spraggers)

  1. (historical, otherwise uncommon) A mineworker whose job is to control (i.e., to slow, check, stop, or prevent) the movement of wagons or mine cars by applying sprags to prop them or to apply braking to their wheels or axles.

Questions about spraggers

What is spraggers the plural of?
Spraggers is the plural of spragger.

Words near spraggers in the dictionary

  1. spraffs
  2. sprag
  3. Spragg
  4. spragged
  5. spragger
  6. spraggers
  7. spragging
  8. Spraggs
  9. sprags
  10. Sprague
  11. Sprague Dawley

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