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
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
In 1894 he got a job as axman in one of the surveying crews working on the drainage canal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Milwaukee, Wis. Line of the Year "My Little Saw" No anti-Axis axman he, Who sawed down that cherry tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is oval in order to be strongest in the direction of the blow and also in order that the axman may feel and guide the direction of the blade.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
One tall tree toppled by New Deal axmen in 1932 was lugubrious, bony, prophetic Reed Smoot, Utah Senator since 1903.
From Time Magazine Archive
To defend groves threatened by the utility's axmen, women residents of the valley threatened to lash themselves to the trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Summoning his chain bearers and axmen, he demolished the trespassing structure and filled up the cellar, against Mr. Carroll's earnest protests.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
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