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headman [′hed·mən]
(mining engineering) A person who brings coal to the tramway from the workings. One who engages or disengages grips on mine cars at the top of a haulage slope. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Then the headman grew angry and demanded back his gifts; but Noma would not give up that which he once had held, and hot words passed. Evening found them at rest under the village tree of a mud- walled, mud-roofed hamlet, talking to the headman as the cattle came in from the grazing-grounds and the women prepared the day's last meal. Judging, however, from what the Waganwazam had learned from those of the Russian's blacks who were not too far gone in terror of the brutal Rokoff to fear even to speak of their plans, it was apparent that he would not travel any great distance before the last of his porters, cooks, tent-boys, gun-bearers, askari, and even his headman, would have turned back into the bush, leaving him to the mercy of the merciless jungle. |
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