Meaning of “dustman” in the English Dictionary

Examples from literature

• And now we may turn to the wages of dustmen, who are, it must be admitted, a most estimable class of men and most useful. 
• But, to make up to them for having to do such nasty work, they were not left black and dirty, as poor chimney-sweeps and dustmen are. 
• Dustmen scavenged through the rubbish on the streets. 
• In these days of keen competition every one lies—every editor, publisher, undertaker, piano-tuner, dustman—they couldn't live if they didn't. 
• It is not good to know that a dustman makes more money than hundreds of hard-worked and well-educated men, for this is a grotesque state of things brought about by imbecile Government officials.