weighman

[ wey-muhn ]

noun

, plural weigh·men.

1. a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
2. Mining. a person who weighs coal extracted from a mine, especially in mines where miners are paid according to the weight of the coal they dig.

Word History and Origins

Origin of weighman¹

First recorded in 1880–85; weigh ¹ + -man

Example Sentences

In 1904, Phil slugged a Keystone weighman who was shorting him at the scales, was fired and ordered out of the county.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1904, a wiry, sandy-haired 18-year-old came up out of a coal mine in western Pennsylvania and swung on the company weighman for cheating.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Phil was fired for his fight with the weighman, he went to work for the United Mine Workers in Pittsburgh.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the age of 18, when he protested a weighman's estimate of the coal he had mined, slugged the weighman and got himself fired, fellow miners struck and elected him president of the United Mine Workers' local.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you exaggerate the importance of the things you have learned, he almost surely will judge you to be an unfair weighman of yourself.

From Project Gutenberg