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gas-fitter
ˈgas-ˌfitter A tradesman or workman engaged in fitting up buildings with the apparatus necessary for the use of gas.1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Gas-fitter, a workman who lays on pipes and fits burners for gas. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 83 The bricklayer, the carpenter, the plumber, the gasfitter, ...
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Thomas F. Byrnes
He worked as a skilled gas-fitter until the start of the Civil War. He enlisted with Elmer E.
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gas-fitting
ˈgas-ˌfitting 1. a. Chiefly pl. The apparatus (pipes, brackets, etc.) required for the employment of gas in a building. b. The action or occupation of fixing gas-appliances in a building.c 1865 Letheby in Circ. Sc. I. 132/1 No one is allowed to make use of his gas-fittings until the gas-fitter has t...
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Frederick Bremer
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A gas-fitter and plumber by trade, Frederick is remembered for building (with assistant Tom Bates) the first British four-wheeled motor car
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George Noble (politician)
Noble was apprenticed as a plumber and gas-fitter with the New South Wales Government Railways and employed as a gas-fitter from 1913 until he was dismissed
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fitter
▪ I. fitter, n.1 (ˈfɪtə(r)) [f. fit v.1 + -er1.] 1. One who or that which fits (see the vb.). Also with adverbs, as fitter-out, fitter up.1660 Hexham, Een geriever, a Fitter, an Applier, or an Accommodatour. 1707 Mortimer Husb. ix. 146 Sowing..with French Furze seed, they reckon a great Improver of ...
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Sydney Ross (footballer)
On 20 November 1895, Ross was badly burned by a gas explosion (the 1901 Census details his occupation as a tinsmith and gas-fitter).
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Vance Arnold & The Avengers
A live recording that lay dormant for over 30 years sheds light on Joe Cocker's early career when he was an apprentice gas-fitter, at the time performing
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tongs
tongs, n. pl. (tɒŋz) Forms: α. sing. 1 tang, 1–5 tange; pl. 1 tangan, 2–4 tangen; 4 tangs, (5 tangys, -is, tang(g)es, 6 Sc. tang(g)is, taingis, tayngis), 6– Sc. tangs, tayngs; 6 Sc. double pl. tangisis. β. sing. 1 tǫng, 3–5 tonge, (4 toenge, 5 tongge), (9 tong); pl. 3 tongen; 4 tunges, 4–5 tongys, 5...
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Dromomania
The most famous case was that of Jean-Albert Dadas, a gas-fitter from Bordeaux, France.
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gas
▪ I. gas, n.1 (gæs) Pl. gases (ˈgæsɪz). Forms: 7–8 gass, 8–9 gaz, 7– gas. [A word invented by the Dutch chemist, J. B. Van Helmont (1577–1644), but avowedly based upon the Gr. χάος (‘halitum illum Gas vocavi, non longe a Chao veterum secretum.’ Ortus Medicinæ, ed. 1652, p. 59 a); the Dutch pronuncia...
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Lőrinc Mészáros
His personality generates regular social discourse, because from a gas-fitter close to bankruptcy, Mészáros became the richest man of Hungary in a matter Early business
Mészáros started his career as a gas-fitter in the early nineties.
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Farrow and Jackson
the Exhibition Guide shows how his manufacturing and distribution business had branched out, describing him as “Ironmonger, Smith, Brazier, Tinman, and Gas-Fitter
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