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Water leader

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-006533

A worker in older collieries whose job was to clear water out of the horseways and other places underground where it gathered. Because ponies hauled the tubs along the horseways, keeping them drained kept haulage moving. The job belongs to the era of animal haulage.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-006533
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMining and extraction
TranslationsGerman: Wassermanns; Spanish: aguador; French: purgeur
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-006533",
  "term": "Water leader",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A worker in older collieries whose job was to clear water out of the horseways and other places underground where it gathered. Because ponies hauled the tubs along the horseways, keeping them drained kept haulage moving. The job belongs to the era of animal haulage.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Wassermanns",
    "es": "aguador",
    "fr": "purgeur"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/water-leader/"
}

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