half-marrow

half-marrow
I
Cleveland Dialect List
[two lads doing the same work as one man]
II
North Country (Newcastle) Words
a middle-sized lad, two such being required in a coal-pit, to put a corf of coals equal to a man

English dialects glossary. 2013.

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