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† ˈwasserman Obs.
[a. G. wassermann lit. ‘water-man’.]
A fabled sea-monster partly in the form of a man, supposed to destroy ships.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 24 The griesly Wasserman, that makes his game The flying ships with swiftnesse to pursew. 1593Nashe Christ's T. D 2 b, [The devils] entred and inhabited the Sea-monsters, such as the Whale, the Grampoys, the Wasserman, whom they haue suborned and inspyred to lye in wayte for Shipswrack. 1599― Lenten Stuffe 50 The greater giants of Russia & Island, as the whale, the sea horse, the Norse, the wasserman, the Dolphin, the Grampoys. |