monday pot

1) An allowance given to miners on a Monday, as a bonus.

No documentary reference to this term has been noted but Trigg commented on its use in the Halifax coalfield: ‘The Monday-pots amounted to 3d a man and seem to be paid pretty regularly to celebrate … Collier Monday when they threw up the cap to ascertain if they were to start work. It usually came down’.

places Halifax

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