Lexicographical Neighbors of Locksmen
Literary usage of Locksmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scotsman's Library: Being a Collection of Anecdotes and Facts by James Mitchell (1825)
"The farms which these last occupied, were not considerable : they paid no rent
in money, but they worked for the locksmen, and were their servants. ..."
2. The Saturday Magazine (1835)
"... the proprietors among locksmen, holding leases of nineteen years or a longer
term, who underlet their farms to a number of inferior occupants. ..."
3. Wanderings in China by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1900)
"We found the village silent as death, and great was the wrath of the locksmen at
being disturbed, and no wonder ! They turned out growling hideously, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746 by James Johnstone Johnstone (1821)
"was divided by grants, of a nature more or less temporary, among the second class
of the clan, who are called tenants, locksmen, or goodmen. ..."
5. Essays by Wray Hunt (1899)
"... lock on the lower river — Boulter's or Cookham; so different is the race of
locksmen in these remote waters from the smart specimens we know below. ..."
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