leadsmanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ledës-man

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: lēdzʹmən, IPA^(key): /ˈliːdz.mən/

名詞

leadsman (複数形 leadsmen)

1. (obsolete) lodesman (a leader または guide)

参照

• “†Leadsman¹” listed on page 145 of volume VI, part 1 (L, M) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1908]
    †Leadsman¹. Obs. [f. leads, genitive of Lead sb.² + Man.] A guide, = Lodesman. [¶] c 1510 Gest R. Hode vii. 369 in Child Ballads (1888) III. 74/1, I wyll be your ledës-man, And lede you the way. 1598 Barret Theor. Warres 29 They find their leadsman before them in their due distance.
• “†leadsman¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

語源 2

From (genitive form of) lead (“heavy metal; Pb”) + man.

発音

• (英国用法) enPR: lĕdzʹmən, IPA^(key): /ˈlɛdzmən/

名詞

leadsman (複数形 leadsmen)

1. (nautical) A sailor who takes soundings with a lead, measuring the depth of water.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 205:

     In the same moment the leadsman hove the lead, and, finding it directly take the ground, he, in his fright, called out, ‘There's only three fathom.’