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What does hurrier mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hurrier? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A person who hurries.
  2. (Britain, obsolete) A young boy or girl employed in a coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface.
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They would then open the trapdoors to allow the hurrier and his cargo through.
A hurrier, also sometimes called a coal drawer or coal thruster, was a child or woman employed by a collier to transport the coal that they had mined.
He's upset that there's the pressure to hurry, though history says he was a hurrier.
Strachan was an attacking runner, a hurrier and scurrier who could pass as well, the key operator in the middle of the park.

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