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Definition of Tributer

1. n. One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value.

Definition of Tributer

1. Noun. (mining UK) A miner who is paid in a certain portion of the ore, or its value. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tributer

1. a miner paid by tribute [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tributer

1. One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value. Tributers generally work in gangs, and have a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive a certain portion of the ore, or so much per pound, as agreed upon, of the value of what they raise. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tributer

Literary usage of Tributer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geology of the Goldfields of British Guiana by John Burchmore Harrison, Frank Fowler, Charles Wilgress Anderson (1908)
"Mining tributer may work on other claim tor unexpired period of mining privilege. Penalty on or (3) The fee for each Mining privilege to be paid at the time ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Gold-mining in Australia and New Zealand by Henry J. Armstrong (1901)
"Part : " Sub-tributer " means any person who has with the ... 1120, " tributer " means a person who works a mine or portion ..."

3. British Farmer's Magazine (1850)
"Once in one day overtook a tributer making for one of the debt, ... Indeed a tributer will be on the point of starvation before he will take ..."

4. The Victorian Reports by Victoria Supreme Court, George H. F. Webb (1876)
"It is said the prisoner was a tributer, and not a co-partner or co-adventurer. 'What is a tributer ? Tribute is where the miners take gold out of a claim, ..."

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