Definition of Swagmen

1. Noun. (plural of swagman) ¹

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Definition of Swagmen

1. swagman [n] - See also: swagman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swagmen

swagger portraits
swagger stick
swaggered
swaggerer
swaggerers
swaggering
swaggeringly
swaggers
swaggery
swaggie
swaggies
swagging
swaggy
swaging
swagman
swagmen (current term)
swags
swagshop
swagshops
swagsman
swagsmen
swail
swails
swain
swaining
swainings
swainish
swainishness
swainishnesses
swainling

Literary usage of Swagmen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Place for a Village by Brian Spittle (2006)
"She coped with the regular swagmen who called with firm kindness. swagmen walked for countless miles through the countryside during the depression. ..."

2. State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand by William Pember Reeves (1902)
"A few of these wandering swagmen are chronic vagabonds who tramp along, not dejectedly, ... Most of the swagmen, however, are genuinely anxious for work, ..."

3. Adrift in New Zealand by Ernest Way Elkington (1906)
"This was for their lunch, which swagmen have in the open, ... At about ten o'clock the swagmen rolled up their swags and left the station, Happy Jack and I ..."

4. Adrift in New Zealand by Ernest Way Elkington (1906)
"... as I have myself been on a station where, one night, there have been no less than thirty swagmen to be fed and lodged; and this, I have been told, ..."

5. Adrift in New Zealand by Ernest Way Elkington (1906)
"... as I have myself been on a station where, one night, there have been no less than thirty swagmen to be fed and lodged ; and this, I have been told, ..."

6. An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens (1906)
"He begged his way on the parched Paroo and the Warrego tracks once more, And lived like a dog, as the swagmen do, till the Western stations shore; ..."

7. British Farmer's Magazine (1869)
"... found to consist of idlers and swagmen. It has oft« «и1 to me that it is an unspeakable misfortune to им; » £ working men that this fine colony presents ..."

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