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- noun Plural form of
reinsman .
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Examples
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The time came for the chariots to be used and the reinsmen lined their war wagons up, the chains connecting each to the other in pairs.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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The teamsters, surly and self-contained, wear slouch hats and great cowhide boots; while the stage-drivers, their faces seamed by the hardship and exposure of their long drives with every kind of team, through every kind of country, and in every kind of weather, proud of their really wonderful skill as reinsmen and conscious of their high standing in any frontier community, look down on and sneer at the "skin hunters" and the plodding drivers of the white-topped prairie schooners.
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a class, however, and compared with other classes as numerous, and not with a few exceptional individuals, the cowboy, like the Rocky Mountain stage-driver, has no superiors anywhere for his own work; and they are fine fellows, these iron-nerved reinsmen and rough-riders.
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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