Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who works in steel.
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Examples
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I am a 51 yo ex republican - Veteran - steel-worker.
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It's 6:55 a.m., and the workers at the hospital across the alley from us are busy making steel-worker sort of noises already.
Hospital Trip Elizabeth McClung 2008
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He was a steel-worker, and he told me that the pipes were under the ground, waiting and growing.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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He was a steel-worker, and he told me that the pipes were under the ground, waiting and growing.
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But I have yet to meet a working miner, steel-worker, cotton-weaver, docker, navvy, or whatnot who was ‘ideologically’ sound.
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But I have yet to meet a working miner, steel-worker, cotton-weaver, docker, navvy, or whatnot who was ideologically sound.
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The merchant, the lawyer, the clergyman, has education and privilege, he can wait and make his terms; but the miner, the steel-worker, the sweat-shop-toiler, has to sell his labor for what will keep him alive that day.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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In September, 1917, when I arrived in Petrograd, the average daily wage of a skilled industrial workerfor example, a steel-worker in the Putilov Factorywas about 8 rubles.
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And the result of that discernment and thrift is now furnishing an analogue for the conscious utilization of other waste -- waste of native capacity of the steel-worker for happiness and usefulness.
The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901
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Kyle Dubas's life story is worthy of a Bruce Springsteen tune: Kid grows up in a far-flung, blue-collar town learning the value of hard work from his steel-worker grandfather.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DARREN YOURK 2011
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