lockman's

He had pitched his float into the pool below the weir -- the pool which lies in the broad, flat fields, with scarce a house in sight but the lockman's cottage -- and for the first time on a

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

` ` Just the post of under-turnkey, for I understand there's a vacancy, '' said the prisoner; ` ` I wadna think of asking the lockman's place ower his head; it wadna suit me sae weel as

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

"Just the post of under-turnkey, for I understand there's a vacancy," said the prisoner; "I wadna think of asking the lockman's* place ower his head; it wadna suit me sae weel as ither folk, for I never could put a beast out o 'the way, much less deal wi' a man."

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Just the post of under-turnkey, for I understand there's a vacancy," said the prisoner; "I wadna think of asking the lockman's* place ower his head; it wadna suit me sae weel as ither folk, for I never could put a beast out o 'the way, much less deal wi' a man."

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801