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Definition of Axemen
1. axeman [n] - See also: axeman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Axemen
Literary usage of Axemen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"THE FIRE DROVE THE axemen AWAY. The fire drove all into the wood-flat that could
be accommodated there; it was cut adrift then, ..."
2. Field Engineering: A Handbook of the Theory and Practice of Railway by William Henry Searles, Howard Chapin Ives (1919)
"The axemen should be accustomed to chopping and clearing, and are, therefore,
... When no clearing is needed, the axemen keep hiin supplied with stakes, ..."
3. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"The Advantages of Skilled axemen in Lumbering Operations.—The Axeman's Efficiency
in Time of War.—The Mill Machinery, of What Consisting. ..."
4. Dust and Foam: Or, Three Oceans and Two Continents by Thomas Robinson Warren (1859)
"... and then becomes resigned—He proceeds to cut Wood for Fuel, with^Sailors for
axemen —It begins to Snow, and Snows for thirty Days and thirty Nights, ..."
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