Bushelman

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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