axman
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Not far from Mr. Petty’s right side was his right-hand man, guitarist Mike Campbell, sporting a black leather jacket and a top hat worth of fellow axman Slash.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2017
In 1894 he got a job as axman in one of the surveying crews working on the drainage canal.
From Time Magazine Archive
At week's end, even the G.O.P.'s most ardent axman, New York's John Taber, conceded that there might be something in OIC, after all.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man who knows most about this problem in the U.S. is WPB's Civilian Supply boss, small, able Joseph L. Weiner, who is no Washington axman bureaucrat.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was only a matter of minutes before we three were poking about in a tangle of wood and field, seeking to locate the spot where Kennedy's apparatus had photographed the lone axman.
From The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
The presence of Clapton and other noted axmen on the album informed Robertson's own playing.
From Reuters ● Apr. 7, 2011
And he had to chop a path through the forests along the entire distance with 300 axmen.
From National Geographic
But it took him three long weeks to cover 20 miles, as colonial axmen destroyed bridges and felled trees across his path.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, to give the Cole Porter score bite, he put an edge on the staid Volksoper orchestra in the form of a dozen Viennese axmen, most of whom cut up in brass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course Mr. Gladstone, and the multitude of undistinguished axmen who delight to fall a tree, have an honorable and lawful vocation.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
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