α. 1800s– binman.
β. 1800s– binsman.
binmann.
1. The man in charge of a bin during hop-picking.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > hop-picking > person in charge of hop-bin
binman1883
1883 J. Y. Stratton Hops & Hop-pickers 31 The pickers are divided into companies..the chief of which is the binman, who is commonly the pole-puller.
1884 Sunday Mag. Sept. 578/2 The ‘bin-man’..is alone permitted thus to go backwards and forwards.
2. local (esp. northern) and colloquial. = dustman n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > one who
muckman1569
dustman1707
garbage collector1847
scaffy1853
refuse collector1876
sanitation man1939
garbageologist1940
garbologist1946
binmana1966
trashman1965
dustbinman1969
a1966 ‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 300 ‘Where else could that happen but in Ireland!’ That's his supreme and universal apothegm. It embraces, defines and explains..the following occasions: Late arrival and departure... Discovery that bin-man's brother is Field Marshal in army forces of a Great Power unnamed.
1968 Guardian 20 Sept. 24/6 The main problem is the 800 tons a day of domestic and shop refuse which the binmen collect.
1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society viii. 105 Dustmen (or binmen in the North of England) become refuse-collectors.
1986 Daily Tel. 15 Sept. 6/1 Another common request was for..a waste-disposal system that would eliminate the need for bin men.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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