Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who urges, incites, or sets on (another).
- noun One who assails or makes an onset.
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Examples
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Peels, Daniel Nkuna and Mishack Shabangu as well as Gold Fields onsetter Mokhantsho Bahlekazi died when a rope on a sub-cage winder snapped.
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In his testimony on Monday onsetter Nicholas Smit, who was on duty on the day the miners died, said "a long signal" about 8. 15pm on May 10 indicated there was an accident in the cage underground.
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An assistant onsetter on Tuesday told the Leon commission of inquiry into May's disaster at Vaal Reefs gold mine that even if he noticed a safety device was missing underground, he would not report it to his supervisor.
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Further cross-examining Potsane on his background as an assistant onsetter, Du Toit asked: "Before you started working on the mine, is it correct to say you were trained on safety?"
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Reefs 'No 2 shaft on May 10 last year, the day of the accident that killed 104 miners, said in reply to a question by state counsel R du Toit: "The white man (onsetter Christ du Plooy, his supervisor) should report that."
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Assistant onsetter Ngesele Potsane was responding to a question from counsel for the State, R du Toit, on whose responsibility it was "to see to it that aeroplane sprags and the farm gate were put back in place".
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A second witness, onsetter Chris du Plooy, was also asked to stand down minutes after taking the witness stand, when mine counsel Chris Loxton pointed out that du Plooy would be cross-examined on incomplete evidence by Potsane.
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Assistant onsetter Mzuvukile Ngilane told the inquiry that since working at number two shaft from 1980, he had never seen the horizontal bar of the farm gate.
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In his testimony on Friday, Vaal Reefs assistant onsetter
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These defined the posts of manager, engine driver, banksman and onsetter in such a way as to reserve them for whites.
file:///D:/Data/HTML/BOOKS/src/sfsa04.txt Ray Esther 1969
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