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Potman

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Pot´man
n.1.A pot companion.
2.A servant in a public house; a potboy.
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Noun1.potman - a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores
potboy
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
employee - a worker who is hired to perform a job


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He was equally unsuccessful with the potman who was just unlocking the doors of the public-house by Horsell Bridge.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
Rostopchin's broadsheets, headed by woodcuts of a drink shop, a potman, and a Moscow burgher called Karpushka Chigirin, "who- having been a militiaman and having had rather too much at the pub- heard that Napoleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, began to address the assembled people," were read and discussed, together with the latest of Vasili Lvovich Pushkin's bouts rimes.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
It was visiting time when Wemmick took me in; and a potman was going his rounds with beer; and the prisoners, behind bars in yards, were buying beer, and talking to friends; and a frouzy, ugly, disorderly, depressing scene it was.
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