gasmann.
/ˈɡasman/, U.S. /ˈɡæsmən/ 1. A man who is engaged in producing or supplying gas; a man who works for a gas company; a gas fitter.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other manufactured materials > [noun] > of gas
gasman1802
gas engineer1817
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > utility service workers > [noun] > gas-fitter
gas fitter1819
gasman1971
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > utility service workers > [noun] > gas-fitter > one who collects money for gas supplied
gasman2001
1802 Morning Post 30 Apr. Parker and Perry, gassmen, in Fleet-street.
1834 Figaro in London 15 Mar. 43/2 We discovered that a strike among the gasmen was the worldly..cause of the darkness at the Opera.
1889 Voice (N.Y.) 14 Nov. He..bowed the astonished gas-man into the presence of the amazed family.
1938 P. White Let. 27 Jan. (1994) i. 12 I leave you now for the gas man.
1971 Guardian 21 June 9/5 The North Thames Gas Board..dump and collect meters in vans and other gasmen have to use bicycles.
2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 2 June 15/5 A woman who was being raped by her estranged de facto husband escaped when the gasman arrived to read the meter.
2. A man employed to light and extinguish gas-powered street lights. Now historical.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp > man who lights gas streetlights
lamplighter1752
gas lighter1826
gasman1830
1830 Kent & Essex Mercury 18 May 2/4 With the assistance of the gas-man and his ladder, they all escaped.
1854 M. Cummins Lamplighter 520 The gas-man came quickly up the street, lit, as by an electric torch, the bright burners.
1863 S. 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.
1920 E. A. Jonas Number Thirty iv. 68 Adown the street a fetid glare, a feeble, protesting, jaundiced kind of sputtering illumination showed where the gas man had been busy.
1995 M. D. Bell in S. Bercovitch Cambr. Hist. Amer. Lit. (2003) II. ii. 95 The gas-man lights the lamps of a modernized and efficient Boston.
3. Theatre. A man responsible for lighting the stage and creating effects with gas light; = gas engineer n. 2. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > gasman
gasman1835
gas engineer1849
1835 Musical Libr. Suppl. Aug. 95/1 Cashier, police-attendants, box-keepers, gas-men, hair-dressers, tailors, servants, &c.
1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship 155 I have been..back-doorkeeper one night, one dollar—and gas man two nights and part of another, four dollars.
1893 F. F. Moore Gray Eye or So III. 197 The actors, the carpenters, the gasmen, the firemen.
1917 Edison Monthly Feb. 339/1 For a rising moon the gas men of the theatre devised an ingenious system of pulleys.
1988 P. Pullman Shadow in North ii. 20 The stage-manager gave a signal to the gas-men.
4. Coal Mining. A man responsible for checking a mine for firedamp. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > other specific coal-mine workers
gates-mana1649
getter1688
coal washer1859
gasman1876
spragger?1881
stoneman1883
thin-miner1892
shotman1905
shiftsman1921
strapper1921
Bevin boy1944
pit yacker1961
1876 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 21 534/1 In my opinion the neglect of the gas-man to note this state of the atmosphere was, most probably, the prime cause of the explosion.
1917 Pacific Reporter 166 740/1 It was the custom of the gas man to enter the mine at 3:30 a. m. and remain until 11.30 a. m.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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