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Definition of Tutwork
1. n. Work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.
Definition of Tutwork
1. piece-work [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tutwork
Literary usage of Tutwork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1839)
"System of tutwork and Tribute.— Such being the leading features of mining ...
Tho dead work is denominated 'tutwork,' and the raising of ores ' tribute;' ..."
2. 'West Barbary,' Or Notes on the System of Work and Wages in the Cornish by Langford Lovell Frederic Rice Price (1891)
"Thus a 'bal-bill' at Carn Brea supplies an example of the ordinary system of
tutwork:— For May, 1863. Paid yd day of July, 1863. and Co. (four men). ..."
3. Mine accounts and mining book-keeping: a manual for the use of students by James Gunson Lawn (1909)
"tutwork ledger, 4. Cost book. The first and third are ruled with vertical columns,
... The tutwork book is kept in the form of a ledger, and will be better ..."
4. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"At the poorer mines, tutwork is generally confined to ground which is not
metallic—tribute work having reference invariably to metallic ground. ..."
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