Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who drives a car or cart.
- noun A man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A person who transported goods, usually with a
horse and cart
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Examples
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[5] A carman was a worker with carts, and Carter seems to mean here a worker who wears good, stout shoes for his job.
Letter from Robert Carter to Thomas Colmore, January 29 and February 15, 1724 1724
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a kind of carman's frock, which, being of the better sort, made me look like the son of a reputable farmer of the lower class.
Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796
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And I myself took a clean tashtook from my carman to wrap round poor old dying Dim's rooker, howling and moaning as he was, and the krovvy stopped like I said it would, O my brothers.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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So up I went to the tenth floor, and there I saw 10-8 as it had been before, and my rooker trembled and shook as I took out of my carman the little klootch I had for opening up.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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So there I was, very very early in the morning, with just this bit of pretty polly in my left carman, jingle-jangling it and wondering:
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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And he took the old stetho out of his right carman.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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Also I had by far the best job of all we four, being in the National Gramodisc Archives on the music side with a real horrorshow carman full of pretty polly at the week's end and a lot of nice free discs for my own malenky self on the side.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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Throughout the special, including the segments listed above, www. carman.org, the website of Carman Ministries, periodically appears on the screen, giving the appearance of an endorsement of this ministry by the U.S. military.
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Throughout the special, including the segments listed above, www. carman.org, the website of Carman Ministries, periodically appears on the screen, giving the appearance of an endorsement of this ministry by the U.S. military.
Chris Rodda: MRFF Urges DoD to Pull the Plug on TBN Special, Demands Investigation 2008
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The pullman carman one is my favorite, but doesn't have any frozen bush.
Margaret Cho shoulders everyone else aside in the raging competition to say the most offensive thing about Sarah Palin. Ann Althouse 2008
brtom commented on the word carman
"Come now, professor, that carman is waiting." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word carman
All day and all night long carremen did nothing but goe vp and downe the streetes with their carts and crye, Haue you anie dead to burie, haue you anie dead to burie: and had manie times out of one house their whole loading: one graue was the sepulcher of seuenscore, one bed was the altar whereon whole families were offered.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010