potman
Britishnoun
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She fair scratted the face off a potman that had brought him a gallon from t' Chequers.
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He was deputy potman, or rather "hanger-on" at a gin bar, in which he used to stand for many hours daily.
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But 49 though he were a potman, Mrs. Lovenant-Smith should give him every bit as much deference as if he had been a brewing peer....
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They warmed the blood like a medley of patriotic airs, and I commenced potman as it were to martial music.
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On the afternoon of the next day the potman summoned me from my private room with the information that there was a young fellow from the Mile End Road to see me.
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