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hackman

[hak-muhn, -man] / ˈhæk mən, -ˌmæn /


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The hackman was struggling up-stairs with the trunk, Mrs. Gano bidding him have a care of the paper and the balustrade.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

He called the hackman, and Red Beak Jim approached the fence with a grin.

From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen

Now, you send Tim, the hackman, up after me this afternoon.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott

Joining forces with him, we no longer shivered before the hackman, nor shrank from the valet de place.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

Pavel hailed the first hackman he came across.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan

The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract."

From Time Magazine Archive

They were the domestic servants, the laborers, the hackmen.

From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters

This is one of the simplest principles in homely every-day criticism, serving truth-seekers, wherever wordy war rages, whether among statesmen or hackmen.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various

The loquacious hackmen fell back as if by magic.

From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey

There was a crowd of hackmen in waiting, all of whom appeared to Sam to be seeing which could talk fastest.

From The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets by Horatio Alger




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