Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The overseer of a mine.
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Examples
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His elder brothers had gone off to sea for their living, and his sister had married a mine-captain: so when the old people died, Joby took over the farm and worked it, and did very well.
Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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