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What is a dustman?

What is a dustman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
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Each week the whistling dustman came down the back garden, hoisted the full dustbin on his shoulder, carried it up the garden and tipped the contents into the dustcart.
It can be compared to an overflowing rubbish-bin, which our brain, this amnesiac dustman, chronically forgets to empty.
Therefore you can have an indication of the dustman in Mr. Inspector's place.
He was a pupil at the John of Gaunt School before taking on jobs as a milkman and dustman.
Beauchamp glanced at his note-book for the name of this man, who was a ragman and dustman.
This, the story about the dustman, reads like one of his monologues, with the added advantage of turning out to be a very creepy ghost story.

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