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
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
Get the yardmen aloft and damn the weather.
From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
The yardmen seemed to get on in the din by a system of strange yells.
From Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett
