flyman
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flymen
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“You pull the bag up, the piece goes in,” says John, the head flyman at the National Theatre.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2017
In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies.
From Time Magazine Archive
She heard his voice speaking to the flyman, the flyman's exhortation to his horse, the sounds of the wheels receding along the road.
From Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House by Anthony Hope
"You'd better stop, perhaps" he added, to the flyman.
From Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Derrick gave his small portmanteau to the flyman and told him to drive there, and he himself set out walking.
From The Woman's Way by Charles Garvice
He missed the clip, and Nicky Knox, one of the flymen, grabbed Ben Vereen and saved him!
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
Stagehands and flymen wrestle enormous pieces of metal and steel, with each show’s costly, carefully designed sets usually shipping in from studios in Connecticut and upstate New York.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016
Then we come to fair Southampton Water, with its marine kind of flymen waiting to take you to the boats, and the boats waiting to take you from the flymen to the yachts.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 by Various
Seeing that the flymen had arranged a tariff that measured distances with sovereigns, and hours with bank-notes, I determined to walk to the Long Valley, and my example was largely followed.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various
The disappointed flymen, to whom the arrival of the mail-boat is the great event of the St. Heliers day, let them pass.
From A Hero of Romance by Richard Marsh
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