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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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 Adelbert von Chamisso
At one time I was going down the river below Baton Rouge, and there were a lot of raftsmen on board.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol
Some, who are almost starving, ingratiate themselves with the raftsmen.
From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky
