Onsetter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Onsetter is a noun meaning (mining, historical, UK, dialect, Northern England) A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.
Meaning
(mining, historical, UK, dialect, Northern England) A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.
More Meanings
- (medicine) One who undergoes the onset of a condition.
Example Sentences
Compared to normative stayers, increasing hyperactivity and maltreatment during childhood were associated with a likelihood of being a late onsetter.
Word Forms
- onsetters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include barrowman, outcropper, underrunner, helper-up, caver, hurrier.
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