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Check-weigher. A person appointed under ss. 13 and 14 of the (English) Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887, by the majority ascertained by ballot of the persons employed in a coal mine who are paid according to the weight of the mineral gotten by them, and stationed at their own cost at each place appointed for the weighing of the mineral to take a correct amount of the weight. See Check-weighing in (English) Various Industries Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 51). See Date v. Gas Coal Collieries, 1914 (3) KB 1175.