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ˈway-man
[way n.1]
†1. A waywarden. Obs.
1570in Toulmin Smith Parish vii. (1857) 509 Jhon Stone, Jhon Margorn, Waymen of West Ashton do give up their Accounts. 1630in G. P. Scrope Hist. Castle Combe (1852) 336 That every housekeeper within the parish which hath noe ploughe, doe com or send one to dige or picke stones one day before the aforesayd day, being warned by the way-men.
†2. A traveller, wayfarer. Obs.
1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iii. (1818) 83 Shew thy selfe a famous way-man. 1876Whitby Gloss., Wayman, a journier.
3. A workman employed on the permanent way of a railway; a plate-layer.
1840F. Whishaw Railw. Gt. Brit. & Irel. 252 Waymen, who are paid by the contractors for keeping the permanent way in repair. 1885Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Oct. 7/2 A party of waymen found that a wood and iron bridge..had been..destroyed by fire. |