Lexicographical Neighbors of Raftmen
Literary usage of Raftmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan by Austen Henry Layard (1850)
"Rafts, bearing merchandise, are generally detained several times during their
descent, to enable the raftmen to examine and refill the skins. ..."
2. Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan by Austen Henry Layard (1849)
"Rafts, bearing merchandise, are generally detained several times during their
descent, to enable the raftmen to examine and refill the skins ..."
3. Annual Report by American Tract Society (1854)
"Your Depository was then an open shed, and I was among the boatmen and raftmen,
your only laborer on this field. About sixty laborers have since been ..."
4. Collections by CT Historical Society (1903)
"There were two classes of rivermen, the raftmen and the boatmen, and they were
... The raftmen came down once a year on their way to Boston or Newburyport, ..."
5. Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon (1870)
"Ivan called his town the New Castle of St. Michael the Archangel; an unwieldy
name, which his raftmen and sailors soon cut down—as ..."
6. Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon (1870)
"Ivan called his town the New Castle of St. Michael the Archangel; an unwieldy
name, which his raftmen and sailors soon cut down—as ..."
7. The Indian Forester (1877)
"These points have been selected, owing to there being backwaters and eddies into
which the logs are naturally carried; they are then secured by raftmen, ..."
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