What is "raftman"

Usage examples of "raftman".

Groundbugs filled the roadway, pedestrians the sidewalks, a sailor, a pilot, a raftman, a fisher, a hunter, a farmer, a whore, a secretary, a drunk about to collapse, another drunk getting belligerent at a monitor, a man gaunt and hairy and ragged who stood on a corner and shouted of some obscure salvation, endless human seething, shrilling, chattering, through engine rumble, foot shuffle, raucousness blared out of loudspeakers.

Not that a stranger, however skilled a raftman, would have been safe if he had tried it This was no ordinary ocean tide, falling steadily from high to low.

Borel again, raising the crossbow as if to beat the raftmen over the head with it.

Meanwhile the raftmen had again pushed the boat away with their poles, so that those who had been gathering themselves to jump across thought better of the idea.