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ˈthree-man, a.
Requiring three men; managed, worked, or performed by three men; esp. in three-man('s) song, three-man glee (also three men's song), a convivial part-song for three men; a trio for male voices. (Corrupted to freeman's song: see freeman 4.)
c1425Cast. Persev. 2336 in Macro Plays 147, xxxti thousende..Þat had leuere syttyn at þe ale, iij mens songys to syngyn lowde, Þanne to-ward þe chyrche for to crowde. c1440Promp. Parv. 492/2 Thre mannys songe, tricinnium. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 255 If I do, fillop me with a three-man-Beetle. 1611― Wint. T. iv. iii. 44 Three-man song-men, all, and very good ones. 1600Heywood 1st Pt. Edw. IV, Wks. 1874 I. 51 Weele haue a three-men song, to make our guests merry. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago xxi, An old seventeenth-century ditty, of the days of ‘three-man glees’. 1865― Hereward v. |