carman

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The cart of the carman, the omnibus, the ponderous dray;

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  1. A man who drives a car or cart. The carmen and coachmen in the city streets, mutually look upon each other with ill-will. Steele, Spectator, No. 174.
  2. A man. Carefulle caremane, thow carpez to lowde. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), l. 957.

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  • When he relates at large his amour with Lord Melbourne's wife, and represents her as pursuing him with an insane passion, to which he with difficulty responded; and when he says that she tracked a rival lady to his lodgings, and came into them herself, disguised as a carman—one hopes that he exaggerates. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
  • "I'm a little bit more of a gunslinger (than Mongeau), rock ` em, sock ` em, risk-oriented," said Harrison, a railroader for more than four decades who started out as a carman / oiler in a Frisco Railroad yard while still in high school. —  Thestar.com - Home Page
  • The carman was restored by the court to his business, which he began again to exercise, when the governor, meeting him on his cart in the street, asked him who had given him permission to ride again. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
  • The carman was sitting on his horse, and it couldn't matter to him, so I stepped out on the front of the cart, and standing on the shafts, I first pulled out one peg and then another, while they were busy talking to each other, with their heads so close that his face was under her bonnet. —  Poor Jack
  • The train, carman, cart, and trailer are made almost entirely by means of moulds, though some parts have to be fitted together by hand. —  Chatterbox, 1905.
 

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  1. Middle English, also careman, for *carlman, from Anglo-Saxon carlman, from Icelandic karlmadhr, a man, from karl, a man (male), + madhr, man (person). See carl, and cf. carlin.
 

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