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Definition of Canallers
1. canaller [n] - See also: canaller
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canallers
Literary usage of Canallers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biography of the Hon. W. H. Merritt, M. P.: Of Lincoln, District of Niagara by Jedediah Prendergast Merritt (1875)
"In the early part of the season a number of canallers assembled along the line.
... To-day the canallers assembled, and had broken iuto the contractors' ..."
2. Allegheny County's Hundred Years by George Henry Thurston (1888)
""The canallers were hard drinkers; they always took three fingers of liquor ...
The canallers always roared when they read just below the Bard's name the ..."
3. Moby Dick, Or, The White Whale by Herman Melville (1892)
""«canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal. You must
have heard of it.' "«Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, ..."
4. History of Steam on the Erie Canal: Appeal for the Extension of the Act of by H. Boynton (1873)
"As paddle-wheel canallers have proven less efficient than screw propellers they
are more limited in numbers. Other contemporary devices were tried. ..."
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