Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A miner who wields a crowbar, wedge, or pick.
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After each quarryman (_barretero_) has undermined the portion of rock allotted to him, he is drawn up to the surface; the ropes belonging to the horse-windlasses (_malacates_) are coiled up, so as to leave every thing clear below, and a man descends, whose business it is to fire the slow matches communicating with the mines below.
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