waggoners

Dark women with broad weather-beaten faces, waggoners and railway workers, unkempt children with bare legs and dirty feet.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

“Stand and deliver,” said one of them, a short stout fellow, in a smock-frock, such as are worn by waggoners.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

At the point on the road indicated, there was a country inn for hay-waggoners, and here

He Knew He Was Right 2004

Pedestrians began to appear; handsomely dressed ladies were more frequently encountered; the men had otter skin collars to their coats; peasant waggoners, with their grate-like sledges stuck over with brass-headed nails, became rarer; whilst on the other hand, more and more drivers in red velvet caps, lacquered sledges and bear-skin coats began to appear, and carriages with rich hammer-cloths flew swiftly through the streets, their wheels scrunching the snow.

The Cloak 2003

Two waggoners and four cavalrymen, hands held high, were being prodded from the beech trees towards the disconsolate prisoners.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

Others had chosen poor mounts that could go but slowly, being waggoners 'horses and not accustomed to any but a slow motion.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

He reminded me of some superb blacksmith hammering out irons of thought, never done mending the political waggons of other people, and from his many talks to the waggoners knowing more about all the roads than any of them.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

I recollect once when in London (I was only three days going there) seeing three men hanging at Newgate, while the coal waggoners were letting off their waggons as stages for spectators at twopence per head.

Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

Two waggoners were sent from Bryneglwys for coals to the works over the hill beyond Minera.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

He committed a vast number of robberies in a very short space, chiefly upon the waggoners in the Oxford Road, and sometimes, as if there were not crime enough in barely robbing them, he added to it by the cruel manner in which he treated them.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward