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DIGGERS |
Miners |
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COLLIERS |
Coal miners |
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HEADLAMPS |
Miners' lights |
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COLLIE |
Most coal miners have a sheepdog |
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CANARY |
Alarming flyers for old coal miners |
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KAND |
Fluor spar; -- so called by Cornish miners. |
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GRIDDLE |
A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners. |
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BANK |
The face of the coal at which miners are working. |
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GEORDIE |
A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp. |
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HOGGER |
A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work. |
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SNOWWHITE |
With Owens, for a change, she kept house for some small miners |
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METAL |
Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners. |
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HOPPET |
A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring
ore. |
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MUNDIC |
Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the
Cornish miners. |
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BARMOTE |
A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding
controversies between miners. |
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BARMASTER |
Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of
the barmote. |
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COCKLE |
The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the
Cornish miners. |
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JAMB |
Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following
the lode or vein. |
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SWALLET |
Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so
called among tin miners. |
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SLACKEN |
A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters
mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion. |
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BLACK-JACK |
A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc
blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende. |
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TUB |
A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so
called by miners. |
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ECOUTE |
One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis.
They serve to annoy the enemy's miners. |
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STULL |
A framework of timber covered with boards to support
rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling
stones. |
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CAMONFLET |
A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an
enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the
miners. |