>In message <029601c04737$9fe481a0$317030d5@qpz66>, Roger Gosling
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>> However please tell me what the jobs of 'dataller' (2 Nov 1895) and
>> 'chair runner' (2 Nov 1901) involved.
>>
A datal worker, as list members have noted, was one paid by the day. I have
seen it as 'day-tail' in some C18 documents, and 'tail' clearly meant 'paid
by the' or something like that. Hence in the lead industry terms like
'bingtale,' tontale' etc.
Stafford.
Stafford M Linsley
Lecturer in Industrial Archaeology
The University
Newcastle upon Tyne
England
NE1 7RU
Tel. 0191-222 6795
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