What is "linkmen"

Usage examples of "linkmen".

They were linkmen, of that he was sure--jelly men as the children of Twombly Town called them, and here they came carrying baskets of blackberries and great, green pippin apples.

They were almost copies of the several linkmen who had come into Twombly Town selling jams and jellies some years back.

So just as Jonathan began a hearty wave and opened his mouth to shout, the two linkmen spied him there on the hill and began jabbering excitedly and waving their arms.

He poked old Wurzle in the back and pointed along toward the river where yet another pair of linkmen were striding, one enormously fat and the other seemingly taken with fits of dancing and leaping.

Toe first two linkmen produced great flowery oil cloths from their baskets and began flapping them out in the breeze and laying them about.

He himself had no desire to plunge into the cold water, having been thoroughly dry for about an hour and a half out of the last two days, but he could hardly expect any of the linkmen standing about to wade into the Oriel.

The rafters and linkmen had been so busy with their repairs that none of them had noticed evening coming along.

Dooly contributed oddball tales concerning the doings of his old grandfather, most of which the linkmen seemed to take pretty much at face value.

The eerie shadows of the trees around the rafters and linkmen flickered and danced in light of their own campfires, now and then seeming to be the upraised arms of a great goblin or hunched troll set to rage in upon them.

The goblin drumming and gonging rumbled along until one by one the various rafters and linkmen forgot it was even there and began to nod off and fall asleep.

Seaside first, although it was certain that, barring mishap, the raft would sail in long before the linkmen could get there on foot, toting their nearly empty and frightfully impractical baskets.

Twickenham popped in on the third morning and announced the arrival of the linkmen the previous evening.

Like Twickenham, they were slightly larger than linkmen and not nearly as stout as dwarfs.

But Jonathan soon discovered that the elves went in for songs and joking even more than linkmen did.

Even Squire Myrkle had enough sense to pull the drawstring tight before having loosed more than the linkmen could carry back in their baskets.