hammermen

We have seen the 'hammermen' in Tijuana and some other places.

Mechanics In Mexico 2006

We have seen the 'hammermen' in Tijuana and some other places.

Mechanics In Mexico 2006

Henry and Catharine were married within four months after the battle of the North Inch, and never did the corporations of the glovers and hammermen trip their sword dance so featly as at the wedding of the boldest burgess and brightest maiden in Perth.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

The hammermen of Edinburgh are to my mind afore the warld for making stancheons, ring-bolts, fetter-bolts, bars, and locks.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

The clang of hammermen, riveters, carpenters and caulkers resounded along the river front.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

Watt, it may be recollected, was then a lad of twenty, who had come back from London to Glasgow to set up as mathematical instrument maker, but though there was no other mathematical instrument maker in the city, the corporation of hammermen refused to permit his settlement because he was not the son or son-in-law of a burgess, and had not served his apprenticeship to the craft within the burgh.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

In briefest time the hammermen were spiking the rails on the rough-and-ready trestle, and the Italians were bringing up the crossing-frogs.

A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

Carbonate and the Rosemary party was at breakfast, the clank of steel and the chanteys of the hammermen on the other side of the canyon began again with renewed vigor.

A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

Through the yawning holes in the upper part of the door the hammermen could be seen at work without.

Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots 1867

He was indeed sorely puzzled what next to do, when one of the hammermen in Moodie's shop ventured to suggest that there was a young man in the Woolwich Arsenal smithy, named Maudslay, who was so ingenious in such matters that "nothing bet him," and he recommended that Mr. Bramah should have a talk with him upon the subject of his difficulty.

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863