raftsman
Americannoun
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raftsmen
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Origin of raftsman
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But many Chinese tourists nowadays skip the bamboo-raft river cruise, which costs about $30 for two people, according to Wu Fandong, a 45-year-old raftsman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Both of the men were inexperienced, one being a raftsman who came down the river, and the other a man from Vicksburg.
From Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Theodore Roosevelt
All at once he saw coming from behind the trees a gigantic man dressed like a raftsman, who held in his hand a pole as large as the mast of a ship.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
The crowd filled the street, and as he passed a raftsman with red breeches on, said he wouldn’t have such a nose as that on him for a hundred dollars.
From Peck's Compendium of Fun by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
He knew him to be the raftsman who had kicked Bim, and whom he had rescued from the dog's teeth at Mandrake, more than a week before.
From Raftmates A Story of the Great River by Kirk Munroe
When you read about Mark Twain's Mississippi raftsmen and pilots, or Bret Harte's Western gold miners, they seem more remote than the cannibals of the Stone Age.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Heyerdahl entertained a theory that Incan raftsmen might thus have freighted their civiliza tion to Polynesia.
From Time Magazine Archive
When these raftsmen found themselves the possessors of so much money, they could hardly contain themselves for joy.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
The raftsmen on the other side of the forest also aroused his envy.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
The raftsmen of the forest, too, excited his envy.
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
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