Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man employed in the manufacture or concerned with the supplying of illuminating gas.
- noun In coal-mining, an employee who examines the underground workings for the purpose of ascertaining whether fire-damp is present in dangerous quantity, and who also has supervision of the ventilation.
- noun Theat., the person who controls the lights on the stage.
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Examples
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So twaz awn a Mundai mornin taht teh gas-man caim to call…♫
I spent all day shredding - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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♫Twaz awn a Mundai mornin teh gas-man came tu kawl;
I spent all day shredding - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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But see you the one-million-light-years gas-man on the left, with his shining heart and with his head and his outstretched arms…
There can be only one reason for a God in this Universe | ultraorange.net 2008
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The first gas-man was ruined; the inventor of steam-engine printing became a pauper.
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Young Daniel described the trainers that the gas-man wore, and nobody but a teenager, I don't think, would be seen dead in them. '
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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Twas on the Monday morning the gas-man came to call
The Gas-Man Cometh 1996
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So twas on the Monday morning that the gas-man came to call.
The Gas-Man Cometh 1996
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Thoroughly amused at the situation which compelled him to bring up the rear of the procession like the piano-tuner or the gas-man, Edestone marched along at the side of an attendant in livery, who evidently looked upon him as a clever vaudeville artist that had been brought in to entertain the company.
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But, as I said, it doesn't so much matter to the entertainer as the lecturer, who must be _au sérieux_, and when I was a lecturer I felt any mishap of the kind very keenly; but an entertainer is a privileged being, and can turn the matter off with a joke at the expense of his manager, his gas-man, his audience, or his subject.
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss
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You have all doubtless seen a balloon awaiting the kindly offices of the gas-man -- that's me.
The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald
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