yardman
noun
a sailor assigned to the yards of a vessel.
yardmen
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pluralof yardman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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.
The other organizations of the railway workers, the shopmen, the yardmen, the maintenance of way men, the clerks, and the telegraphers were, at best, tolerated rather than recognized.
From A History of Trade Unionism in the United States by Perlman, Selig
Only a few yardmen were there to salute the colonel as he stepped from the ambulance.
From The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt by Remey, Oliver
