plateman

noun

plate·​man

ˈplātmən

plural platemen

1

: middler sense 3

2

: a worker at the breaker of a coal mine who picks rocks and oversize lumps from the coal before it is conveyed for further treatment or loading

3

: amalgamator sense 2b

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