hoistman


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hoistman

[′hȯist·mən]
(engineering)
One who operates steam or electric hoisting machinery to lower and raise cages, skips, or instruments into a mine or an oil or gas well. Also known as hoist operator; winch operator.
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38) Ajoutons a cette categorie les occupations suivantes: rigger, millwright, hoistman, pumpman, mecanicien, cheminot et repairman.
Causes d'une participation a la greve: grevistes et non-grevistes de la Noranda Mines Ltd, juin 1934
the skip cable, shiny and black with grease, stretching from surface to the water line, gave a clue to the presence of the skips below; a very slim clue to their exact whereabouts it turned out to be, however, as the hoistman, subsequently, reported five hundred feet of slack cable below the twelfth level.
Big sleep (an account written in 1948 of the Malarctic mine fire of 1947)

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