surfaceman

noun — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From surface + -man.

Business, Mining A miner who works in the open air, rather than underground.

Scotland A platelayer; one who maintains a railway track.

To this I might have paid less heed but for its disquieting confirmation on a later day at a psychic parlour in Edgware Road. Proceeding there in company with my eldest brother-in-law, a plate-layer and surfaceman on the Northern.1915, Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red Gap:

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