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Back-overman

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-000377

A person employed to superintend a colliery during the back shift, the afternoon shift, when the overman who supervised the pit by day was absent. He took charge of the underground work and the workmen for that shift and answered to the officials above him.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-000377
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMining and extraction
TranslationsGerman: Back-Overman; Spanish: supervisor de turno de tarde; French: contre-maître d'après-midi
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-000377",
  "term": "Back-overman",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A person employed to superintend a colliery during the back shift, the afternoon shift, when the overman who supervised the pit by day was absent. He took charge of the underground work and the workmen for that shift and answered to the officials above him.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Back-Overman",
    "es": "supervisor de turno de tarde",
    "fr": "contre-maître d'après-midi"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/back-overman/"
}

Record 405 of 7,291 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.