sidesmen

He shall come, sidesmen accostant, by aryan jubilarian and on brigadier-general Nolan or and buccaneer-admiral Browne, with — who can doubt it? — his golden beagles and his white elkox terriers for a hunting on our littlego illcome faxes.

Finnegans Wake 2006

There's the typical handful of older folks but also a healthy (for the size) number of young people, including a couple of teenage sidesmen (ushers, in American parlance).

trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2004

The visiting clergyman preached a good sermon and everyone sang the hymns lust illy One of the sidesmen or wardens, I don't know what he was but he was a Stamford, I knew that, met me in the church porch.

Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000

The brig's sidesmen twittered their pipes, the anchor was lifted, and Lieutenant Martin ordered sheets hauled tight.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

Wambleton, and Andrew Jobling and Septimus Wicks, sidesmen.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Various

And in villages they are commonly made churchwardens, sidesmen, aleconners, now and then constables, and many times enjoy the name of head boroughs.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Eight gentlemen were associated with him as wardens and sidesmen, all well-known men in the town, one of whom being specially known for the faultless way in which he was dressed and by his beautiful pink complexion -- the presence of the light hair on his face being scarcely discernible, and giving him the appearance of being endowed with perpetual youth.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

"Man the side -- gangway lanterns there," quoth the officer on duty; and by the time we were close to, there were two sidesmen over the side with the manropes ready stuck out to our grasp, and two boys with lanterns above them.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various

Turn the neck towards you, and very neatly take off the two sidesmen, and the whole will be done.

The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner Anonymous

This feeling was not lessened by the announcement that one of the gallant boys who sank with the Amphion was a son of one of the sidesmen of St. Giles's.

Chapter XX Solomon Tshekisho 1916