a man who drives a car or cart; carter
a man whose business is the transport of goods; haulier
a tram driver
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The carman dropped the shafts on to the mare, and drove on up the pass, with one side of the car turned up and himself on the other.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin
A pilche, or leather coat, seems to have been the common dress for a carman.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
To night I vas shtand in front von mine shtore, to talk mit a carman, who have bring some dings to me.
From The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander
His reputation, unlimited by the adventitious circumstances of class, spread over the whole surface of society; and, from the chancellor down to the carman, his claims were confessed.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
"Not one, save the hackney carman, who evidently did not know him."
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
Thai police said they arrested Simon Peter Carman at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport in connection with the death as he was allegedly "preparing to flee the country".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
When Carman has tried to reduce her dose, she said, her body aches, she feels desperately tired and she becomes disoriented.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
Ashley Carman: Spotify came about during a time when the music industry was essentially decimated by piracy.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
But the indictment did not charge Carman with his grandfather’s killing, and he had consistently denied any involvement in the two deaths.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
To facilitate his business, St. Johns was his home four years, during which time he was associated with William Henry Carman.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
Rail unions have argued that the new technology shouldn’t replace inspections by well-trained carmen.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Cox said a detailed inspection by a carmen might have caught the problem and prevented the derailment.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
“Every time the wheels come off the rail, it’s kind of like buying a lottery ticket to the big disaster,” said Jason Cox with the carmen division of the Transportation Communications Union.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2021
President Green succeeded in patching up jurisdictional disputes between the brotherhood of teamsters and the street and electric railway carmen as well as arranging a truce between the plasterers and bricklayers.
From Time Magazine Archive
“In conuersium Palengenii Barnabæ Gogæ carmen E. Deringe Cantiani,” prefixed to the firste sixe bokes of the mooste christian poet Marcellus Palingenius, called the Zodiake of Life.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William
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