Both Uses of
foreman
in
Arrowsmith
- Most of them were still fishermen and plantation-foremen, but one of them, Kellett, a man small-mouthed and angry and industrious, had risen from office-boy to owner of a shipping company, and while his father still spread his nets on the beach at Point Carib, Kellett was the scourge of the House of Assembly and a hound for economy—particularly any economy which would annoy his fellow legislator, George William Vertigan.†
Chpt 31
- Tried to get here for the Special Board meeting, but my beastly foreman had to take the afternoon off and die of plague.†
Chpt 34 *
Definition:
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(foreman) a person who is in charge of other workers
or:
a juror in a court case who is selected by other jurors to head the jury