Gender
Is bridgeman gender-neutral? See -man.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bridgeman
Example Sentences
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And I could hear that old man shouting about all the things he was going to do and about the bridgeman deserting and leaving him in the mud.
From Roy Blakeley by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Honest, you'd think I had the bridgeman in my pocket.
From Roy Blakeley by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Even while we rowed across to Jimmy's shanty I could hear him shouting between the whistlings and saying he'd have the bridgeman up for deserting on flood tide and putting him in the mud.
From Roy Blakeley by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Do bridgeman sleep on full tide up this way?
From Roy Blakeley by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
The bridgeman took the news in high good humor and slapped Dancing on the back.
From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
Where the Army and the bridgemen split was on clearance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bridge piers hold up his logs, he says, and he ain't never goin' to pay toll till the bridgemen pay him for loss of time on logs.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman
There were then about 100 journeymen bridgemen on the work—these being workmen of the class that erects steel skyscraper frames—with some fifty apprentices and carpenters, and about twenty common laborers.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace
What the Sioux were to the white men, what the Spider Water is to the bridgemen, that, and more, Pilot has been to the mountain men.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
The foreman and his crew of bridgemen were striving hard to make an impression on the select board provided by Mrs. Rooney at her Arkansas eating establishment.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)
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