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  • A pumpman had picked up a piece of heavy timbering and thrown it at him in mock ferocity.

    The Cross-Cut Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

  • The service at the Parrot was not all that was required of the men forming the gun crew, for each was also a first or second boarder, a pumpman, or something else, and to each number one or two weapons were assigned, as musket and pike, sword and pistol, battle-axe.

    A Victorious Union Oliver Optic 1859

  • The flamethrower pumpman seemed dead, the hoseman was preoccupied with a transfixed wing ... no steersman either, the canoe’s boom slatted about in a meaningless arc while its crew huddled — “Dead ahead!” he roared.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • "Some of the tanks are in lonely places, and if the children got out there they would be taken in charge by the pumpman or switchman.

    Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Laura Lee Hope

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