slushern.
/ˈslʌʃə/ 1. Australian. The cook's assistant on a station during shearing time.
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1890 Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 13/6.
2. Mining. A mechanical device for loading or packing broken material in which a bucket is drawn to and fro through a pile of the material by ropes wound round a drum at each end of its length of travel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > machine for loading or packing broken material
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1923 Mine & Quarry July 1267/1 The contractor..has what is practically the double drum slusher in the ordinary drag line excavator and also in his back-filling machine.
1946 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers CVI. 115 Four scours, totalling 1,200 yds., have been driven with the slusher.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 1281/2 Diamonds... To mine them you need, among other things,..a double drum slusher.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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