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Small leader

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-007249

A boy employed in a colliery to take small coal, the fine material left after larger lumps were sorted out, to the stowboard. The job was one of the light underground tasks given to boys in older mines. The word belongs to historical colliery usage and names the worker, not a type of vein or stringer.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-007249
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMining and extraction
TranslationsGerman: Kohlenführer; Spanish: pequeño líder; French: petit leader
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-007249",
  "term": "Small leader",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A boy employed in a colliery to take small coal, the fine material left after larger lumps were sorted out, to the stowboard. The job was one of the light underground tasks given to boys in older mines. The word belongs to historical colliery usage and names the worker, not a type of vein or stringer.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Kohlenführer",
    "es": "pequeño líder",
    "fr": "petit leader"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/small-leader/"
}

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