swamper

Example Sentences

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He learned how to use shovels and rakes for this work, and crew roles such as captain, swamper and dragspoon.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2018

It turns out Lopez, a swamper, followed the lead saw through the underbrush.

From National Geographic • Aug. 20, 2015

This event shows off some of the craziest, meanest, scariest-looking quads that ever existed-for some perspective, think of an Arctic Cat 4x4 with 44-inch super swamper truck tires on it!

From Time Magazine Archive

The old swamper shifted his broom and held it between his elbow and his side while he held out his hand for the can.

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

This is way back before my dad was born, but they still called him a swamper on account he was a Beaman, and Beamans had always been swampers, simple as that.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick