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coalcutter

noun

Etymology

From coal + cutter.

  1. inherited from cutter
  2. compounded as coalcutter — “coal + cutter”

Definitions

  1. A device for cutting coal out of the rock face in a coal mine.

    • One was to a coalcutterman who was caught and mutilated by the coalcutter picks whilst the jib was being withdrawn from under the coal.
    • The cutting chain of a longwall coalcutter was reversed in an attempt to free the jib which had become fast, and an assistant coalcutterman was caught by the moving picks.
    • In seams dipping at angles of 15 to 25°, the rope passes behind the coalcutter during flitting, and is fixed to the anchor prop 7 (Fig. 456).

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