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Definition of Cagers
1. cager [n] - See also: cager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cagers
Literary usage of Cagers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Safety Methods and Devices, Manufacturing and Engineering by George Alvin Cowee (1916)
"cagers should never leave a station until the gate (unless automatic) has been
properly closed. 14. cagers should not allow the men to overcrowd the cages. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"It is part of the duties of top and bottom cagers, brakemen, switchers, engineers,
motormen, loaders, drivers, and tipple men to so mark any defective cars ..."
3. Bituminous Coal Mine Accounting by William Blose Reed (1922)
"Drivers, Boss Drivers, Motormen, Trip Riders, Couplers, cagers and Pushers ...
Top cagers, Pushers and Dumpers, Weigh Boss, Check Puller and Track Weighman. ..."
4. Wages in Various Industries and Occupations: A Summary of Wage Movements (1920)
"... cagers, drivers, trip riders, ... drivers, cagers, trip rope riders, water
haulers and timbermen 2.84 6.00 111 ..."
5. American Industrial Conditions and Competition: Reports of the Commissioners by British Iron Trade Association, James Stephen Jeans (1902)
"Drivers, rope riders, and cagers ... ... ... ... 1^95 Trappers (boys) . ...
'90 Pushers and Assistant cagers (.boys) ... roo Hitchers On ..."
6. American Negligence Cases: A Complete Collection of All Reported Negligence (1904)
"The cagers are not placed there as watchers to warn passers-by of their danger,
as watchmen are placed at railroad crossings. ..."
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