bushelman
bushelman noun: a tailor's assistant for repairing garments.
Noun
bushelman (plural bushelmen)
- A tailor's assistant for repairing garments.
- The day was before him—a long day in which to discover something—and this was how he must begin to discover. He scanned the long column, which mostly concerned bakers, bushelmen, cooks, compositors, drivers, and the like, finding two things only which arrested his eye.1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Chapter 35
- A merchant tailor has in the same shop with himself one or more "bushelmen," who repair garments, and one cutter who cuts all the garments. Besides these, there are usually several "journeymen" tailors in his employ, who come to the shops for garments and make them up in their own homes, unless a...c. 1900, Nellie Mason Auten, “Sweating System in the Garment Trades in Chicago”, in The American Journal of Sociology
- Synonyms:
- busheler
Synonyms of bushelman
Forms of bushelman
| plural | bushelmen |
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Origin of bushelman
From bushel + -man.
Questions about bushelman
- What does bushelman mean?
- Bushelman means a tailor's assistant for repairing garments.
- What part of speech is bushelman?
- Bushelman is a noun.
- What is the plural of bushelman?
- The plural of bushelman is bushelmen.
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