lorryman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He next secured an entrance amongst the goods porters of the London and North-Western Railway; and now the work promised so to grow on his hands, that the Committee of the City Mission set him apart for this special line of labour, and gave him a commission to open similar services wherever a suitable opportunity presented itself. He has since then been quietly, but earnestly pushing this scheme: and now he holds fifteen meetings weekly in and around Manchester, besides five which are held at the stations of Wigan and Bolton. Four nights every week he addresses the "nightsoilers" at ten o'clock; once a week he holds a meeting with the lamplighters, and once with the lorrymen of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway; the others, with two exceptions, are held amongst the railway goods and passenger porters. In all, from 1000 to 1200 men are weekly listening to the Gospel message, through this agency."