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- noun A
prison guard charged with checking on the prisoner by looking through thehatch .
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Sometimes the hatchman (almost always men, until recently) would be easy to identify: no one had any doubts who Spiro Agnew was carrying water for when he attacked the press as "nattering nabobs of negativism," a phrase that we should always remember sprang from the pen of the illustrious William Safire -- whom the
democracycellproject 2008
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I'm sure it was not from me; that is if you be mine, which is a rather problematical circumstance; for I take it you are as likely to be the descent of some rascally turnkey or hatchman, and be hanged to you, as mine. "
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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