yardman
1 Americannoun
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yardmen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of yardman1
First recorded in 1885–90; yard 1 + -man
Origin of yardman2
Example Sentences
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She recalls that her father kept his wedding cake in the freezer for ten years, and that after her mother's funeral he presented it to the yardman.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is, furthermore, the besotted yardman Tomo who leads a bull into Michael Duff's kitchen for reasons that to him, at least, seem perfectly logical at the time.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father, who had brought the family West after fire destroyed their farm in Checotah, Okla., was a $40-a-week yardman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hoover Secretary of Labor, onetime railroad yardman; of heart disease; in "Notre Nid," his Virginia home across the Potomac from Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never mind that Mister Johnny hired a fulltime yardman a few months ago, name of John Willis.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Brotherhood president, tough, New Dealish Alexander Fell Whitney, first worked out this plan in Chicago where he put several thousand laid-off yardmen to work on railroads desperately short of switchmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before the President took to the radio, the wildcat strike of railroad switchmen and yardmen threatened to be one of the ugliest in U.S. history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost at once he brought about the adoption of the principle of collective bargaining for trainmen and yardmen.
From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Orth, Samuel Peter
Their action threw out of employment six thousand brickmakers, helpers, yardmen, and teamsters.
From 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. by Beeks, James C.
Get the yardmen aloft and damn the weather.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
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