rock-hog

Mining, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tunnel-worker; tunneller; also, sometimes, a driller.

Quotations

1935

"You've been awful durned good to us rock-hogs."

1954

They spoke of dynamite and flying rock responsible for the death of many a "rock-hog."