What is "yardman"

Usage examples of "yardman".

The Biter was on the dockyard tiers, swarming with yardmen, with attendant noise and mess.

Mike the yardman arrived, Ellery pointed him toward the mulch and vinca, with instructions to mulch first, then plant.

The Biter was on the dockyard tiers, swarming with yardmen, with attendant noise and mess.

As the two midshipmen watched the yardmen paddle their leaky craft away, Black Bob turned up like a silent wraith, and led them to the cabin.

The yards and canvas, newly rigged and overhauled after the ministrations of the dock yardmen were loosed off and ready, for hauling or for dropping from the yards.

With one of the yardmen aboard to give me a hand I took her down the channel against the tide with the engine, after the dock trial, hoisted sail, and went on out.

He tried to imagine himself and Cori coming home to Atlanta, the tall old house, the black yardman next door looking up from trimming the hedges.

He began to coil up a garden hose the yardman had left on the walk.

There was a staff of four at The Elms: a housekeeper, a maid, a cook, and a combination yardman, chauffeur, and husband to the housekeeper.

Slapping his hand against the signal plate, he waited for the night yardman to activate the open beam for him.

The track workers, the switchmen, the yardmen, who had always greeted her, anywhere along the line, their cheerful grins boasting that they knew who she was—had now looked at her stonily, turning away, their faces wary and closed.