donkeyman

• The donkeyman, a dapper little chap with a dazzling fair skin and a tiny, gingery moustache, worked in a sort of mute transport. —  Typhoon
• Ford had got a berth as donkeyman on a tramp steamer, and that steamer had gone down with all hands off the Cape: a judgment, the widow woman feared, for long years of contumacy, which had culminated in the wickedness of taking to the sea, and taking to it as a donkeyman -- an immeasurable fall for a capable engine-fitter. —  Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners)
• But there -- in those seas -- the incident was rare enough to resemble a special arrangement of a malevolent providence, which, unless it had for its object the killing of a donkeyman and the bringing of worse than death upon Jim, appeared an utterly aimless piece of devilry. —  Lord Jim
• On the desk lay an amusing memorandum, which the Chief referred to jocularly as one of Mac's "works," anent some problem of whether the donkeyman was due certain overtime on a Sunday when the _Turrialba_ lay in Hampton Roads waiting for coal. —  Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
• The donkeyman, —  Typhoon

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