Definitions for yardmen

yardmen yard·man

Spelling: [yahrd-muh n]
IPA: /ˈyɑrd mən/

Yardmen is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in yardmen (ademnry).

Definitions for yardmen

noun

  1. a sailor assigned to the yards of a vessel.
  2. a person who works in a railroad yard, boatyard, lumberyard, or the like.
  3. a person employed to care for the yard of a house, public building, etc., as by mowing the lawn and trimming shrubbery.

Origin of yardmen

First recorded in 1885-90; yard1 + -man

Examples for yardmen

More than that, she made herself a heroine to every yardman in sight, and strengthened the new administration incalculably.

One look into their faces, aided by the flare of a yardman's lantern, and the fellow turned tail and fled, shouting as he did so.

Did the yardman tell you where he thought the noise came from?

I asked a yardman if he had seen or heard anything during the passing of the President.

A yardman let us in on the spur at the end of the headquarters building, and the boss was off in half a jiffy.

Another young fellow brought out a typewriting machine; he is now yardman at a Suva hotel.

You see, Dr. yardman called the coroner, as soon as he arrived, but Mr. Goode was here already.

Didn't you, when you went over to the railroad yard, talk to some yardman?

The remark had come from the yardman, not Mr. Carmichael himself, who had appeared too stunned to think of anything but his son.

"The town's been full of 'em since noon yesterday," said a yardman to Ben, in answer to his question.

Word Value for yardmen
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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