Pl. -men.
1. Printing. A compositor who imposes pages of type on the imposing-stone.
1875. Southward, Dict. Typogr.
1904. De Vinne, Mod. Book Composition, 301 (Cent. Suppl.). Front and tail margins can be most accurately made by the stoneman, for they cannot be predetermined with precision by guesswork.
2. Coal Mining. A man employed in driving stone-headings, and in making and repairing ‘roads.’
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining.
1891. Star, 8 July, 3/4. All the enginemen were doing eight hours shifts, while the stonemen and others did still more.
3. A man who works in stone; a stone-cutter, stonemason.
1912. E. Rhys, in Engl. Rev., Nov., 517. He saw the bobtailed rabbits above the stoneman’s pit.
