yardsmann.
/ˈjɑːdzmən/ = yardman n.1
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > in yard
yardswoman1817
yardmana1825
yardsman1872
yardbird1963
1872 Daily News 1 Aug. The Guardians of Mile-End Old Town require, for their industrial schools,..a..man..as Yardsman.
1885 Law Times 80 79/2 The servant was bonâ fide employed by the defendant as yardsman and labourer.
1888 Daily News 12 Dec. 5/4 A yardsman who saw the approaching train shouted to the guard.
Derivatives
ˈyardswoman n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > in yard
yardswoman1817
yardmana1825
yardsman1872
yardbird1963
1817 in A. J. C. Hare The Gurneys of Earlham (1895) I. 282 I was conducted by..the newly appointed yards-woman, to the door of a ward.
1905 Daily Chron. 1 Sept. 1/6 Holborn Union... The Guardians of the above Union require a Girls' Yardswoman at the Schools, Mitcham, Surrey.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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