panman

Example Sentences

• "But the early steelbands were greeted with considerable hostility. The panmen were slum-dwellers, working-class men with little formal education; middle-class residents objected to the noise from the pan yards and associated the men with hooliganism and rough behaviour."
• "These older panmen are vital to the transmission of musical skills to the younger generation and provide youths with a sense of the steelband's history and importance."
• "From Monday through Friday they talked constantly about the previous Saturday-night fete: which panman (a steelband player or pan builder) went home with what girl."
• "Having, done this, the panman stirs together about a quart of spice, and a gallon of lime-water, and pours this mixture into each pan. When the sugar is again brought to a scalding heat, it throws up a second scum, not so foul as the first, which is removed as before."
• "Our pans went to their kitchen to be washed, as we had not the sink capacity and they had a panman who came in specially."
• "In a dispute between the brickmakers and brick carters' employees and the employers' union, the issues settled contained, among other provisions, the following: Panmen, one to be employed at each pan, but when 2 pans feed from 1 shoot a boy or man to assist;"