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 Moffett, Cleveland
If he had, he might have learned that the raftsmen had just picked it up, floating, empty and ownerless, down the river.
From Raftmates A Story of the Great River by Munroe, Kirk
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 Butterworth, Hezekiah
