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Definition of Keelmen
1. keelman [n] - See also: keelman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keelmen
Literary usage of Keelmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Comprising the Law Relative to by John Frederick Archbold (1840)
"128. to prevent seamen or keelmen, So:, from working, f.128. to prevent the free
sale or conveyance of grain, p. 129. in pursuance of conspiracy to raise ..."
2. Local Records: Or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events, which Have by John Sykes (1833)
"... the strike of the keelmen on the Tyne, a number of seamen proceeded from
Shields up the river in boats, and took the crews from some of the vessels ..."
3. Lives of the Engineers by Samuel Smiles (1904)
"These keelmen are an exceedingly hardy class of workmen, not by any means so
quarrelsome as their designation of "bully" would imply—the word being merely ..."
4. Lives of the Engineers George and Robert Stephenson: The Locomotive by Samuel Smiles (1904)
"These keelmen are an exceedingly hardy class of workmen, not by any means so
quarrelsome as their designation of "bully" would imply—the word being merely ..."
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