Usually means: Operator of mine shaft elevator.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (onsetter)

noun:  (mining, historical, UK, dialect, Northern England) A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.
noun:  (medicine) One who undergoes the onset of a condition.

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