What is "washerman"

Usage examples of "washerman".

The chieftain cast a doubting glance at the washerman, the only one among them on foot.

Built like a mountain, with the warmth of the summer sun in his eyes, the humble washerman was the very image of the Laughing God, who had not walked the earth, it was said, for many human generations.

Den said, and Llesho understood that the washerman did not refer to the sacks of laundry waiting to be tumbled into the washing vats.

Everyone in the training compound bowed to the washerman and called him master.

The washerman took one look at the shirt hanging from his shoulders like the clothes on a scarecrow and sighed.

Master Den gave him a nod to signal the end of meaningful conversation, or perhaps the beginning of a lesson, Llesho could never quite tell when the washerman was teaching and when he was making small talk.

He found the washerman under the same trees, his tubs and cauldron empty around him and the last of the tent cloths and bandages spread out to dry.

Llesho answered the washerman, who himself hid secrets of his identity.

The washerman who, if one were to believe the ambassador, had once been an imperial general, seemed to read his mind.

Colman, with ten oarsmen, a headman, a steersman, a washerman, and two cooks, of whom Moung Nau was one.

For inhabitants, the camp has about two hundred miners, one white woman and child, several Chinese washermen, five squaws, and a dozen vagrant buck Indians in rabbit-skin robes, battered plug hats, and tin-can necklaces.

On the other side the washermen, (who are those that wash clothes) were in a camp by themselves, and they were near to the place where they could best wash clothes.

I do not speak here of the washermen, who are numberless here -- they wash clothes -- nor of the public women who accompanied the army.