† spadiardn.
Obsolete.
A labourer in the Cornish tin-mines.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > tin-miner > specific
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1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. To Rdr. sig. 5 A Spadiard that worketh in Mines, who while he..followeth the maine vaines, seeth not the hidden small fillets.
a1636 T. Westcote View Devonshire 1630 (1845) i. xi. 53 Of these last are two sorts; one named a spador or searcher for tin.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 11 There are also labourers, that serve for daily wages, whereof be two sorts: the one is called a spadiard, a daily labourer in tin works.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Spadiards, Laborers in the Tin-mines of Cornwall.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Spadiers, Labourers that dig in the Mines in Cornwall.]
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