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ˈislandman Now rare or local.
= islander.
At Belfast, applied to the ship-builders on Queen's Island, more fully Queen's Islandmen.
1577Fenton Gold. Epist. 137 Eschines..in an oration he made to the Rhodians, commended the gouernement of the Islandmen. 1590Nashe Pasquil's Apol. i. B iij, He speakes like an Iland man. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. ii. 138 To commend lyfe and gudes vnto the credence and custodie of the ylandmen thay war forced. 1886Pall Mall G. 10 Aug. 1/1 A great contingent of the iron shipbuilders employed by the Mayor of Belfast—a powerful body of men and lads known as the ‘Islandmen’. 1893Westm. Gaz. 29 Apr. 7/2 The Islandmen proceeded to and returned from their work yesterday as if nothing unusual had recently occurred... The movement which is on foot among the Queen's Islandmen for the reinstatement of evicted Catholics is making progress. |