canvasman
Big top worker
A canvasman is a circus or carnival worker who handles the tents—raising, lowering, and maintaining the canvas structures.
The term belongs to the vocabulary of traveling shows, where canvasmen formed the manual labor crew distinct from performers.
By extension, any worker who deals primarily with canvas materials: The canvasmen had the big top up before dawn.
tent
Portable fabric shelter
- riggerOne who handles tackle
- big topMain circus tent
- roustaboutUnskilled transient worker
pole · stake · guy rope · marquee · sideshow · carnival · fairground · erection · pitching · striking
deckhand
Ship's manual laborer
nautical · mariner · bosun · sailmaker · yardarm · halyard · sheet · clipper · schooner · windjammer
canvasmanperformer
One who entertains audiences
headliner · ringmaster · acrobat · trapeze artist · aerialist
canvas, canvases, canvassed, canvassing, man, men, manly, manliness, manhood