raftsman
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He was their raftsman; he had been seen out on the log boom, pike pole in hand, shoving logs in to the endless chain elevator that drew them up to the seas.
From Kindred of the Dust by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
French forms are freely turned into pure Canadianisms, like cageux, raftsman, boucane, brushwood smoke, portage, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
The Corporal was a slender, lantern-jawed, weasel-faced Monongahela raftsman, sharp as a steel-trap.
From Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac by Armstrong, William H.
At the same moment there stepped from behind a pine a gigantic man, dressed as a raftsman, and with a pole as big as a ship's mast in his hand.
From The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart by Chamisso, Adelbert von
But, as for a wretched beginner and blunderer to whom she has not yet given her little finger to kiss, no raftsman or woodsman in the mountains groans under such a load.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul
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
The raftsmen on the other side of the forest were also objects of his envy.
From The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart by Chamisso, Adelbert von
"Tell them to go back, Beppo," said the chief of the raftsmen to one of his party.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James
As raftsmen we should certainly speak the Bavarian dialect, which none of us can do.
From With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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