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Wood leader

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-006644

A worker in older mining practice whose job was to carry wooden props, the timber supports that hold up the roof, to whichever parts of the mine needed them. The job kept the timbermen supplied, since they set the props in place, and the word names a worker and not a piece of piling equipment.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-006644
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMining and extraction
TranslationsGerman: Holzträger; Spanish: portador de madera; French: porteur de bois
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-006644",
  "term": "Wood leader",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A worker in older mining practice whose job was to carry wooden props, the timber supports that hold up the roof, to whichever parts of the mine needed them. The job kept the timbermen supplied, since they set the props in place, and the word names a worker and not a piece of piling equipment.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Holzträger",
    "es": "portador de madera",
    "fr": "porteur de bois"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/wood-leader/"
}

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