What is "handymen"

Usage examples of "handymen".

One incident after another had managed to delay her flight, two of the most important of them being that handymen and materials with which to repair the cottage were difficult to come by, and not until just over three weeks ago had it become ready.

Andrew watched it, as he went from barn-tunnels to greenhouses, going through the motions of supervising stewards and handymen, with outrage and disbelief.

They were young, all those people gathered beyond the doorway, but haggard and slow to move, handymen, woodworkers, seamstresses, possessed of a rueful nostalgia, perhaps for the prairie womb common to them all, that land too bleak for song to live.

He had also, during that period, employed no less than a dozen people privately, almost all young men and women who passed security muster, some as gardeners and handymen, others as apprentice technicians.