Wagoner

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-006497",
  "term": "Wagoner",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A mine worker responsible for transporting tubs or wagons of coal or ore from the working face to a main haulage road or the shaft bottom. This physically demanding job involved pushing the wagons by hand, managing their movement on inclined planes, or driving ponies that pulled the tubs along underground railways. The term is most associated with the era before widespread mechanization of underground transport systems.",
  "synonyms": [
    "waggoneer",
    "wagoneer",
    "wagonman",
    "wainman",
    "wagonmaster",
    "carter",
    "cartman"
  ],
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Fuhrmann",
    "es": "carretero",
    "fr": "wagoner"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/wagoner/"
}