raftsman
/rafts-muhn, rahfts-/US // ˈræfts mən, ˈrɑfts- //
筏工,木筏工,筏夫,木筏工人
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural rafts·men.
- : a person who manages or is employed on a raft.
Examples
He was elected, not because he was a raftsman, but because the Democrats of that day outnumbered the Whigs.
However, Antonio proved a most expert raftsman, being almost amphibious and smart as any eel.
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.
Then he fired up, mad-like, and talked about the grey mare of hisn being able to pull a oar as good as any raftsman.
Both of the men were inexperienced, one being a raftsman who came down the river, and the other a man from Vicksburg.
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