Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man.
  • noun A man who drives a car or cart.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart

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  • "Come now, professor, that carman is waiting." Joyce, Ulysses, 15

    January 1, 2008

  • All day and all night long carremen did nothing but goe vp and downe the streetes with their carts and crye, Haue you anie dead to burie, haue you anie dead to burie: and had manie times out of one house their whole loading: one graue was the sepulcher of seuenscore, one bed was the altar whereon whole families were offered.

    - Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594

    April 14, 2010