onsetter
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editonsetter (plural onsetters)
- (mining, historical, UK, dialect, Northern England) A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.
Etymology 2
editNoun
editonsetter (plural onsetters)
- (medicine) One who undergoes the onset of a condition.
- 2008, Anna Hyun, Factors Associated with Stability and Change in Offending Among School Enrolled Adolescents and Their Transitions into Emerging Adulthood:
- Compared to normative stayers, increasing hyperactivity and maltreatment during childhood were associated with a likelihood of being a late onsetter.