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ˈgas-ˌman
Also gasman.
1. a. One who is engaged in manufacturing or supplying gas. b. A collector of sums due to a gas-company for gas supplied.
1821[T. Hickman, the pugilist, who fought with Neat on 11 Dec. 1821, was called ‘the Gas man’ or ‘the Gas-light man’. See P. Egan Boxiana (1828) New series I. 33, 42.] 1842Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Conf. Pref., The first gas⁓man was ruined. 1889Spectator 14 Dec. 829 The public are willing that the gasmen should suffer, if only they may keep cheap light. 1889Voice (N.Y.) 14 Nov., He..bowed the astonished gas-man into the presence of the amazed family.
c. A workman who installs or repairs equipment for supplying household gas.
1873A. T. Ritchie Let. (1924) viii. 151 Two gas-men in one room, a carpenter in another. 1971Guardian 21 June 9/5 The North Thames Gas Board..dump and collect meters in vans and other gasmen have to use bicycles.
2. a. One who attends to the gas-lights in a theatre.
1865Sat. Rev. 21 Jan. 80/2 Probably the gasman of a London theatre is, as a rule, equally incautious. 1893F. F. Moore Gray Eye or So III. 197 The actors, the carpenters, the gasmen, the firemen.
†b. A man who lights gas-lamps in the street. Obs.
1849Thackeray Pendennis I. xxxix. 379 The gasman came and lighted the lamps before Sir Francis's door. 1854M. Cummins Lamplighter 520 The gas-man came quickly up the street, lit, as by an electric torch, the bright burners. 1863S. C. Massett Drifting About 50 The narrow and gloomy passage slightly illuminated by one or two jets of gas, which ‘Tom the Gasman’..had a few moments before lighted.
3. Coal-mining. (U.S.) One who examines the workings for fire-damp.
1883in Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining. |