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
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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
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
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
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
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
The yardmen seemed to get on in the din by a system of strange yells.
From Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett
It does not include the labor of operating the plant, nor watchmen, yardmen, pipemen, and electricians.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 by James H. Brace
"Lower yardmen in the chains!" continued Gordon and his order was passed, along by the officers.
From Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat by Oliver Optic
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