gatewayman means A kind of road repair worker in coal mines.
Etymology
From gateway + -man.
noun
- A kind of road repair worker in coal mines.“I would like to know, for example, the length of time taken to cut the 125 yards of face with the bar machine, the number of fillers employed on the same length of face, and what number of gatewaymen were employed to do the necessary canch work at the face.”