raftsman
noun
a person who manages or is employed on a raft.
raftsmen
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pluralof raftsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Young Heyerdahl entertained a theory that Incan raftsmen might thus have freighted their civiliza tion to Polynesia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
We must see the raftsmen, too, and—ah, but it is cold here!—let us climb the cliff again and find some shelter.
From Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett
The raftsmen, who had welcomed them, now turned hosts and housed the newcomers.
From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
The raftsmen had never heard of Major Caspar, nor of Winn Caspar, his son.
From Raftmates A Story of the Great River by Kirk Munroe
