Meanings of raftsman in English

The Corporal was a slender, lantern-jawed, weasel-faced Monongahela raftsman, sharp as a steel-trap.

There's a raftsman's cabin not far away, and maybe we can stay there.

Paul told the negro to pull alongside and have the raftsman open the keg.

Flat and generally of sad aspect, the country of the raftsman lies remote and uncommended.

With a shout the raftsman charged at him.

When the raftsman saw the hangman, he jumped up and shook the bars of the grill.

He could not get it off, and at last asked a raftsman, who stood by, what it was:

Bill, the second raftsman, a stolid, silent man, at once swung his axe upon a log of driftwood.

The burly raftsman brushed the boy's hair from his face, and a murmur went up from the crowd.

From his left side came another attacker, a solidly built raftsman, whom Kuisl recognized as one of the Augsburg guild.

There was a moment only in which to study the river to learn if the unfortunate raftsman's body had appeared.

Both of the men were inexperienced, one being a raftsman who came down the river, and the other a man from Vicksburg.

The raftsman tells me he seen Bryce down at the end o' the conveyin' belt givin' that refuge the once-over-sostep easy.

Just as the raftsman was about to launch himself into yet another hateful tirade, Andreas the jailkeeper opened the door to the keep.

He had been a raftsman, and was reputed to be the most daring of those little-known watermen at flood-times and in the early thaw.

Here he was, a raftsman plying between Cracow and Warsaw, those two hot-beds of Polish patriotism- amerepiece of human driftwood on the river.