scoop driver
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who operates the scoop that stokes a coal-based generator.
Example Sentences
- "The chief stoker who holds the handle and manipulates the scoop is known as the scoop-driver."
- "An unskilled man may, with very little practice, soon qualify himself as a scoop-driver — indeed, men who have been in the retort-house comparatively a few days have, within that short time, been able to do the charging in cases of emergency."
- "When the scoop is opposite the mouth of the retort, the scoop-driver drives the machine, and the impetus obtained by the 5 ft. tribution of coal in the retort, which is obtained with a scoop as compared with charging by shovel."
- "After expressing a desire to be a scoop driver, Mr. Collins trained him for this job and Mr. Amburgey began operating the scoop " a couple of weeks " after the opening of the Number 9 mine."
- ""Got to go, boys," he said, interrupting an impassioned sermon by the scoop driver about the lineage of the University of Louisville's quarterback."
- "Each section had a foreman, a repair man, a miner operator, and a miner helper, two bolt men, two shuttle car drivers and most of the time, a supply man and a scoop driver. The scoop driver would clean up all the loose coal the mining machine couldn't get."