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SURFACEMAN Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a man who works on the surface (as on the roadbed of a railroad or the surface works of a mine) 2. a repairer of road surfaces.
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surfaceman - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · (mining) A miner who works in the open air, rather than underground. · (Scotland) A platelayer; one who maintains a railway track. · 1915, Leon Wilson, ...
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surfaceman, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
This word is used in Scottish English. surfaceman has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. mining (1830s) building (1840s) railways (1840s) · See ...
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surfaceman
surfaceman (ˈsɜːfəsmən) Pl. -men. [f. surface n. 3 b + man n.1] A miner or other labourer who works at the surface, or in the open air; on a railway, a workman who keeps the permanent way in repair.1878 (title) Songs of the Rail. By Alexander Anderson, Railway Surfaceman,..Dumfriesshire. 1900 Yorksh...
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SURFACEMAN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
A labourer, such as a miner, who works at the surface.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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SURFACEMEN Definition & Meaning - surfaceman - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SURFACEMAN is a man who works on the surface (as on the roadbed of a railroad or the surface works of a mine).
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Alexander Anderson (poet)
Railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman. The Life-History of Alexander Anderson-“Surfaceman". 1929. Inveresk. 139pp
Brown, Alexander. Later Poems of Alexander Anderson, "Surfaceman."
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SURFACEMEN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
2 meanings: → See surfaceman a labourer, such as a miner, who works at the surface.... Click for more definitions.
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surfaceman - English–Irish Dictionary (de Bhaldraithe) - Teanglann.ie
surfaceman, s. 1 Min: Oibrí m os cionn talún. 2 Deisitheoir m bóthar iarainn.
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Alexander Anderson (poet) - Wikipedia
... surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman. Spending all his leisure in ...
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Alexander Anderson, 'Surfaceman': Miscellanea (1).
The most daring and lofty flight the "Surfaceman" has yet attempted is in the series of sonnets entitled "In Rome," wherein he measures himself against some of ...
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Glossary | Scotland's People
NameSurfaceman, Term description. A worker who keeps the railway bed in good repair, in mining, a person engaged in ancillary work above ground ; NameSurgeon ...
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Geoff Bent
He was the only child of Clifford Bent, a surfaceman at Sandhole Colliery, and his wife Clara (née Dunning).
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surface
▪ I. surface, n. (ˈsɜːfəs) [ad. F. surface (from 16th c.), f. sur- sur- + face face n., after L. superficiēs: cf. obs. Sp. sobrehaz, Sp. sobrefaz, Pg. sobreface, and superfice, superficie, superficies.] 1. a. The outermost boundary (or one of the boundaries) of any material body, immediately adjacen...
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Kirkconnel railway station
He was a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South Western Railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman.
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