Possessives

• wage: Can you expect to have harder duties done for about half a common workman's wages.

• compensation: The Rule Books also contain appeals from other courts, mainly county court cases relating to workmen's compensation after 1897.

• cottage: The Company have built and own 845 workmen's cottages.

• fare: The new line offered exceptionally cheap workmen's fares.

• train: Even during its days as a passenger station it was only served by a couple of workmen's trains each day.

Converse of object

• employ: He was a workman employed by Father Smith, whose daughter he married in 1708.

• kill: Worker Killed A workman was killed at a construction site.

Adjective modifier

• bogus: He also asked the lady's normal gardener for a business card, which was handed over to the bogus workman.

• skillful: This is performed by a skillful workman, who places himself opposite a gas-lamp, or where there is a great light.

• fellow: Ward, a fellow workman, held him up to the fresh air supply for three hours, thus saving his life.

Noun used with modifier

• master: The rich publisher may treat the poor poet better or worse than the old master workman treated the old apprentice.

Adjective modifier

• skilled: Skilled workmen came from England to settle at the works.

• experienced: Origin Apprentices used to be expected to hold the candle so that more experienced workmen were able to see what they were doing.

Noun used with modifier

• rogue: Police have released this CD fit in an attempt to trace two rogue workmen.

• council: It was the council workmen who gave them the idea.