English Explanatory Dictionary

breaker boy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A boy, or sometimes a man unable to do other mining work, employed to separate impurities from coal at the breaker of a coal mine in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Word forms

breaker boy breaker boys

Synonyms

coal cracker
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