lash, verb transitive
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more Special sense of general English lash to dash, throw, or move violently.
Mining
To load (ore, broken rock, etc.) on to a car for transporting to the surface; to fill (a car) in this way.
1932 Watermeyer & Hoffenberg Witwatersrand Mining Practice 348The snatch-block is moved nearer the face.., the object being to lash the rock directly from the pile into the truck.
1989 B. Courtenay Power of One 479The grizzly man works in the dark; his miner’s lamp attached to his hard hat with the battery clipped to his webbing belt is the only source of light. He has five Africans to help him lash the rock through the grizzly bars and to prepare mud for the explosives.
To load (ore, broken rock, etc.) on to a car for transporting to the surface; to fill (a car) in this way.
- Derivatives:
- Hence lasher noun, one who performs this task; lashing verbal noun, the action of shovelling and loading (a truck etc.) with broken ore from a mine; also attributive.1932 Watermeyer & Hoffenberg Witwatersrand Mining Practice 347Lashing or shovelling. Except where advantage can be taken of the angle at which an end dips, all the ore is usually loaded into trucks by shovel.1989 B. Courtenay Power of One 474The Northern Rhodesian Department of Mines required that all miners obtain their blasting licence, a process which required that we learn not only how to use dynamite but that we were trained as lashers, timber men, drillers and pipe fitters...Lashing was the process of removing blasted rock by hand and shovel and loading it into underground trucks.
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