Middle English Dictionary Entry
lōd-man n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lōd-man n. Also lōde- & (in surnames only), lad(e-. |
| Etymology | OE lād-man |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Associated quotations
a
- (1345-6) Doc.in Nicolas Navy 2476 : [Paid to a certain mariner, called] Lodman [piloting the same ship out of Burseldon to Solent, 2 s.].
- c1430 Chaucer LGW (Cmb Gg.4.27)1488 : Axinge hym..If they were brokyn..Or haddyn nede of lodman [vrr. loodman; lodesmen] or vitayle.
- (1465-6) Acc.Howard in RC 57332 : A lodeman..my master made comenawnt wyth John Yonge..that he schalle be lodes man of my said masters shippe into Sprewse.
- (1470) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)11.673 : Ipse habebat secum sua Nave quendam Epirotham qui dicitur Lodeman, vocatum Martinum Peris.
b
- a1500 PFulham (Jas 43)260 : So myry..ys the grownde That ther lakyth lyne where with to sownde, And he ys begylyd that standyth at ye sterne, ffor the lode man a bove, that schuld sownd yerne, Lakyth brayn.
c
- (1265) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)1.234 : William Lodman.
- (1301) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms97 : Joh. Lademan.
- (1316) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms97 : Joh. Ladman.
- (1341) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms97 : Petronilla Lodman.
- (c1346) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms97 : Will. Lodeman.