Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
busheler .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Local, U.S. A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also
busheler .
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- noun US, dialect A
tailor 'sassistant forrepairing garments .
Etymologies
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bushel + -man?
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Examples
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What, for instance (they will say) is a "bushelman"?
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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No, my dears (for though I never saw a bushelman, I'd rather see than be one), he engages in the tailoring business, in the sweatshop way (as well as I can make out).
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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It might be well to be one so much in constant demand as a bushelman.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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You would say he had been brought up a bushelman in Essex Street.
Options O. Henry 1886
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