noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person who hurries.
2. 2
   A child employed in a coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface. UK, obsolete

Etymology

From hurry + -er.

Related phrases

pit pony

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