pannikin-overseer

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• Overseer

  ·noun One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one...

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• overseer

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• Pannikin

  ·noun A small pan or cup. ...

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• pannikin

  n. a small tin cup for drinking.The word is not Australian. Webster refers to Marryat andThackeray. ...

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• pannikin-boss

  or Pannikin-overseer ,n. The term is applied colloquially to a man on astation, whose position is ...

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