panman

noun7

1. •
   A man who plays steelpan.

   • These older panmen are vital to the transmission of musical skills to the younger generation and provide youths with a sense of the steelband's history and importance. — 1995
2. •
   One who works with pans.

   • Our pans went to their kitchen to be washed, as we had not the sink capacity and they had a panman who came in specially. — 2012
3. •
   One who fills the molds for clay bricks.

   • South Wales -- Burners, setters, drawers, panmen, and machine men wanted. — 1915
4. •
   One who oversees the making of salt in a panhouse.

   • About 1600 there were produced about 7,650 weys of salt; and there were engaged about 430 panmen. — 1914
5. •
   One who oversees the steaming process in refining sugar.
6. •
   One who operates a machine that whirls candy in a pan to give it a shiny smooth surface.
7. •
   One who loads cottonseed cakes into a press in order to extract cottonseed oil.

   • That Will Smith was a panman, or pan shoveler, whose duties as such were to take the cooked meal after it was formed from the former and load it in the press. — 1914