breaker boy

noun

Definitions

  1. A boy, or sometimes a man unable to do other mining work, employed to separate impurities…

    A boy, or sometimes a man unable to do other mining work, employed to separate impurities from coal at the breaker of a coal mine in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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