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The workmen turned it over to Andrew Kim, the library's executive director.
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The wood-and-steel tower, which took workmen six weeks to make, was a stunning piece of craftsmanship.
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At Roker Point, where McFarland and Ja Rule could be seen many days popping wheelies on their A.T.V.’s, local workmen were hired to prepare the site.
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In the claustrophobic bowels of a mine, a blast goes wrong and sends a flaming fireball racing through the shaft in a brief but effective disaster scene that leaves four workmen dead and the audience hungry for more.
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At 2 p.m., workmen with shovels opened up a small cut in the cofferdam built at the west end of the Montlake Cut.
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An attorney from Gary has been charged in Lake Superior Court with theft for allegedly keeping about $60,000 that was a workman's compensation settlement for a couple who are Gary police officers.
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Over the next few weeks, we were visited by more workmen, who re-plumbed the entire house — why not, when it had been torn up already? — and rebuilt the bathrooms.
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Bunning won 224 games in a workman-like 17-year major-league career, mostly with the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
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First Known Use of workman
before 12th century
WORKMAN Defined for English Language Learners
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: a skilled worker (such as an electrician or carpenter)
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\-mən\1 : workingman
2 : a skilled worker (as a carpenter)
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