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  • noun Plural form of gasman.

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Examples

  • Her heart had thrilled with joy to see so many grip hands and stand together, officers and stewards and gasmen and lightermen and engine-drivers and cooks and draymen, from Adelaide to far-off Cooktown, in every port, great and small, all round the eastern coast.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • A minute or two later, three grimy, uncouth-looking men came into the hall, whom Mavis took to be gasmen.

    Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

  • 12:08 - I thought Fridays were for painters, and gasmen were supposed to come on Mondays?

    November 2007 2007

  • Tax collectors and gasmen carry bottles in their pockets. "

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Cunyngham, so that you could see the audience or the stage, just as you chose, if Miss Cunyngham wouldn't mind standing about among the gasmen. "

    Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869

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