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West, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the man in charge of the steam engine and team in a steam-threshing crew.
Quotations
1965
Shortly after 1910, the steam threshing outfit began to find its rule challenged by the newer and smaller gasoline threshing outfits. These could be operated by a combined engineer-separator man. This did away with the wages of a separator man, the tanky and his team.