end man
a man at one end of a row or line.
a man at either end of the line of performers of a minstrel troupe, who plays on the bones or tambourine and carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor.
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How to use end man in a sentence
But always in the end man must come back to this moral tragedy of the soul.
Preaching and Paganism | Albert Parker FitchIt isn't the shy and the timid who get the applause; the clown in tinsel and the end man in cork divide easy honors.
Rosemary and Rue | AmberThen they selected a wise young goose who had been end man the year before, and they made him their leader.
Tell Me Another Story | Carolyn Sherwin BaileyIt was a hazardous journey, but he succeeded in crawling to within a few yards of the end man and passed a message along.
The Fifth Leicestershire | J.D. HillsFiring had now ceased, and I took my time, and soon was the tail-end man of what was left of us.
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 | Leander Stillwell
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