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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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
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
His fireman had gone home, and so had the yardmen.
From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Francis Lynde
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 Selig Perlman
To my surprise there was a representative from every branch of the service, passenger and freight conductors, brakemen, shopmen, yardmen, switchmen, and so forth.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew
