machine man

Hardrock Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a driller.

Quotations

1900

Good miners and machine men can find work in any white man's mining camp. . . .

1964

. . . in others [mines] all are miners, and drillers are listed as such or as "machine-men" on the payroll or in the Collective bargaining agreement.