It ended in his becoming overlooker on the very same mine, at a salary so small that they could hardly have reared their family anywhere but in Wales.
John Ferrar had been employed by Squire Todhetley as a sort of overlookeron the estate, or working bailiff.
I think I hear my father sending out theoverlooker and five of the dyers, to look in six directions for the body of his prodigal son in the snow; and my mother repenting her of her many misdeeds towards me, now I am gone.
He was theoverlooker and went off to de Yankees, when dey come for foraging through dat country de first time.
The overlooker made everybody clean up and wash de children up and after the praying we had games.
He kept a white overseer and the colored overlooker was my uncle.
In the third year Hamilton gave up his sail-boat, and had himself rowed across the Narrows, where the overlooker of a salt estate he had bought awaited him with a horse.
Mr. Hamn's estate adjoined hers, and his overlooker relieved her of much care.
I summed up my account by saying that 'I was at present a kind of overlooker in the stables of the inn, had still some pounds in my purse, and, moreover, a capital horse in the stall.
I parted here with the gentleman who had accompanied me hitherto, and the overlooker went on with me.
The man sitting beneath the picture, told us that he was a throstle-overlooker by trade; and that he had been nine months out of work.
Leaving this house we met with another member of the Relief Committee, who was overlooker of a mill a little way off.
The first was that of an old man, an overlooker of a cotton mill.
When he came to the palace, the king and his overlooker were standing in the hall to give him a scolding for having destroyed the forest--the overlooker had been there and seen what he had been doing.
This was vexatious, the overlooker said; and then he told the youngster that he should not taste food until he had gone into the forest and cut just as much timber as he had chopped up for firewood.
George, who was in charge in the absence of his father, inquired of the oldoverlooker of the colliery.
Why, to judge from all the whispers we hear," the overlooker commented, "we are like enough to get our backs well hazelled before long.
De overseer am in charge of wo'k and de overlooker am in charge of de cullud women.
In one large mill visited a superior woman overlookerwas in charge of the mending and burling, and she was careful to vary the work so that the tedious pieces did not always come to the same girls.
But the dangerous element in the work is the occasional necessity of altering the weights, which are placed by the overlooker on levers at the back of the loom, to maintain the required tension of the warp.
More than one mule-room overlooker declared that no daughter of his should ever work in the spinning room, and the opposition to such work was based on physical as well as on moral grounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overlooker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
