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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

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)

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

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)