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- noun Plural form of
potman .
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Examples
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The bar was besieged, and potmen and barmaids were quickly busy drawing beer and handing it over to the eager folk outside.
Liza of Lambeth 1919
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He was known by sight to a score of billiard - markers, potmen, blacklegs, and lower characters still, and was on nodding terms with fully half of them.
The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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We lost a great deal of companionship when the late public-houses turned their lamps out, and when the potmen thrust the last brawling drunkards into the street; but stray vehicles and stray people were left us after that.
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We lost a great deal of companionship when the late public-houses turned their lamps out, and when the potmen thrust the last brawling drunkards into the street; but stray vehicles and stray people were left us, after that.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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But if I may be so bold, I can't help my drawers and potmen talking with your servants. "
The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The thing at Low Heath is to behave and dress like gentlemen, not like vulgar, public-house potmen, "said she, with an access of indignation which surprised me.
Tom, Dick and Harry Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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