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Wailer

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-006500

A boy employed at a colliery to pick out stones, pyrites, and other impurities left in the coal after it had been screened. The work was done by hand as the coal passed along, and it was one of the surface jobs given to boys in older collieries.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-006500
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMining and extraction
TranslationsGerman: Klauber; Spanish: cribador; French: wailer
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-IND-006500",
  "term": "Wailer",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A boy employed at a colliery to pick out stones, pyrites, and other impurities left in the coal after it had been screened. The work was done by hand as the coal passed along, and it was one of the surface jobs given to boys in older collieries.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Klauber",
    "es": "cribador",
    "fr": "wailer"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/wailer/"
}

Record 7,055 of 7,311 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.