Bushelman
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A tailor's assistant for repairing garments. US, archaic, dialectal
"The day was before him—a long day in which to discover something—and this was how he must begin to discover. He scanned the long column, which mostly concerned bakers, bushelmen, cooks, compositors, drivers, and the like, finding two things only which arrested his eye."
Example
More examples"The day was before him—a long day in which to discover something—and this was how he must begin to discover. He scanned the long column, which mostly concerned bakers, bushelmen, cooks, compositors, drivers, and the like, finding two things only which arrested his eye."
Etymology
From bushel + -man.
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