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Meaning of breaker boy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A boy, or sometimes a man unable to do other mining work, employed to separate impurities from coal at the breaker of a coal mine in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

historical

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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