Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pilot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Same as
loadsman .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
loadsman .
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Examples
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If wine be often taken, anon by drunkenness it quencheth the sight of reason, and comforteth beastly madness, and so the body abideth as it were a ship in the sea without stern and without lodesman, and as chivalry without prince or duke.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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(whiche also was one of the outecastes, saieth be) counselled them not to sitte ther, awayting aftre the helpe of God or of man, whiche thei ware not like to haue: but to folowe him as their capteine, and lodesman, and committe them selues vnto his gouernaunce.
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