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bay-man, bayman1
[bay n.2 5.]
1. A resident beside a bay (usu. some specific bay); one accustomed to navigating a bay. U.S. Hist., an inhabitant or native of Massachusetts Bay.
1641in New Plymouth Colony Records II. 23 That clause..which concerned the boundes from Narragansetts Bay to..Pockanockett, in regard the Bay men would haue had Sicquncke from us. 18..Shore Birds 43 (Cent. D.), When the birds are traveling with the wind, or as baymen call it, a ‘free wind’. 1904N.Y. Even. Post 11 June, Somers P'int, as the baymen call it, is one of several very attractive summer resorts that have grown up about the bay in recent years.
†2. A mahogany-cutter of the Bay of Honduras. Obs.
1715Boston News-Let. 10 Oct. 2/2 Huntingdon and..Holder..report that 250 of the Bay-Men..were designed to Campeche, to burn the Shipping there. 1781Ann. Reg. 1780 *211/2 The baymen on the Musquito and bay of Honduras shores, (as the logwood cutters are called). a1821C. Biddle Autobiogr. (1884) i. 17 The baymen at this time would frequently sell their wood to two or three different captains. |