Lexicographical Neighbors of Petermen
Literary usage of Petermen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Tower Bridge and of Other Bridges Over the Thames Built by by Charles Welch, William Benham (1894)
"We observe that the irrepressible petermen are again aimed at in the legislation of
... But raids upon the perverse petermen were still found necessary, ..."
2. British Farmer's Magazine (1856)
"There is a salte which the petermen троп the refining of their Peter, ...
троп which the petermen powre their foggy liquors to cleere them ; one worke ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"There area great number of other kind of fishermen—belonging to the Thames, called
Hebber-men, petermen, and Trawler- men. 2. (thieves').— See PETER. ..."
4. The Story of London by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1904)
"... and petermen, who used a broom in fishing, ' beating the bush.'' There are
many other references to the burning of false nets in the City Archives. ..."
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