breaker boy
Noun
Meaning
breaker boy (plural breaker boys)
(historical) A boy, or sometimes a man unable to do other mining work, employed to separate impurities from coal in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Noun
breaker boy (plural breaker boys)
(historical) A boy, or sometimes a man unable to do other mining work, employed to separate impurities from coal in the 19th and early 20th centuries.