freemann.

Brit.

/ˈfriːmən/,

/ˈfriːman/, U.S.

/ˈfrimən/,

/ˈfriˌmæn/

Inflections: Plural freemen.

Forms: see free adj., n., and adv. and man n.¹

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian frīmann , Middle Dutch vrīman (earliest as a personal name; Dutch vrijman , now rare), Middle Low German vrīman , Old High German frīman (Middle High German vrīman , German Freimann , now rare) < the Germanic base of free adj. + the Germanic base of man n.¹Also attested early as a personal name and surname: Friumon (9th cent.), Freman Sceil (1188), Willelmus Freman (1196), Reginald le Freman (1221), etc.

1. Originally: a man who is personally free; a man who is not a slave or serf. Later also: a man who is politically free; a man enjoying the rights and liberties of a free society, as opposed to a tyrannical regime or totalitarian rule.In later use the one-word form has tended to be used exclusively with reference to freedom from slavery, whereas when referring to political freedom the two words are more likely to be used as a transparent collocation.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > freeman or not slave

freeeOE

freemanOE

franklin1377

free-soiler1848

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > one who is politically free

freemana1616

OE Genesis A (1931) 2176 Hwæt gifest þu me, gasta waldend, freomanna to frofre, nu ic þus feasceaft eom?

OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. xlv. §1. 342 Gyf freoman [lOE Corpus Cambr. 383 frigman] freolsdæge wyrce, þonne gebete þæt mid his halsfange.

lOE Laws of Æðelred II (Rochester) i. i. 216 Þæt ælc freoman getreowne borh hæbbe.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15577 Þu nahtes i nane stude habben freo-monnes ibude.

a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 65 (MED) Wyþ freomen þu art ferly feid.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. vi. 8 Whethir seruaunt, whether fre man.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16022 All þai gadird o þe tun, bath freman and dring, And sent to pilate.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 178 Fremann, made of bonde, Manumissus.

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 179 (MED) Of Henry Doylly þe Secunde and of all his ffree men tenauntes (or holders) of the ffee of Doylly.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxij^v/1 A free man shal not be amercyed for a litel trespace but after y^e maner off the trespace Saue his contenement.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. xxiii. 30 I call him a yeoman whom our lawes doe call Legalem hominem,..which is a freeman borne English.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 24 Had you rather Cæsar were liuing, and dye all Slaues; then that Cæsar were dead, to liue all Free-men ?

1654 T. Fuller Ephemeris Parliamentaria 459 No Free-man shall be imprisoned without due processe of the Law.

1714 Spectator No. 607. ⁋12 The Steward shall cause these two Neighbours to swear..if he be a Free-man, or a Villain.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 733 He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free And all are slaves beside.

1793 R. Burns Scots, wha Hae in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 708 Free-man stand, or Free-man fa'.

1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 98 A coloured free-man.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 222 Injustice, whether existing among slaves or freemen.

1922 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 102 78/1 What the American labor movement holds is that..we stand ready to give where we can give as freemen to freemen, with honesty on both sides.

1942 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 7 346 Although a majority of Negroes were slaves many were freemen.

1984 M. Bloch Marxism & Anthropol. (BNC) 32 Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman..stood in constant opposition to one another.

2000 H. S. Pyper in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 674/2 In classical Greece, voices were raised at times in protest against the ill-treatment of slaves and the enslavement of innocent freemen.

2. A person (esp. a man) who possesses the freedom of a city, borough, company, guild, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > one possessing freedom of a city or company

freeman1387

baron1576

charterer?1592

libertine?1611

livery1630

liveryman1641

1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 34 The eleccion of Mairaltee is to be to the fre men of the Citee.

1422 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 132 (MED) We endite John london, Foreyn, & his whif, for thei retaille chaffer as fremen.

1480 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 37 The said merchand sall sell his corne to fremen as best he may.

1545 in J. B. Paul & J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1883) III. 758/1 The nerrest of the faderis kyn,..beand fremen and induellar within the said burgh.

1571 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 339 Noe freman of the Cytie..shall grynde from the said milles any kynd of grayne.

1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 680/1 If any Free man of this City, use to resort into the Countries neere to this City.

1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 34 The Rights..are not only granted to the Mayor, but to the Free-men and Barons.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 121 Both having been made Free-men on the same Day.

c1744 Parl. Bill in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea (1753) II. xii. 66 The oath to be taken by the freemen of the said company.

1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 474 The son and heir of a freeman succeeds to his inheritance within the borough unencumbered by the debts of his father.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. ix. 730 The electors [of the Council] are citizens, burgesses, or freemen.

1901 Amer. Hist. Rev. 6 263 The franchise was limited to freeholders, and to freemen of the corporations.

1958 D. S. Lovejoy Rhode Island Politics & Amer. Revol. i. 7 In 1756 the freemen of the town sent him as a deputy to the General Assembly.

1976 Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 12 I Zingaria [sc. a cricket club]..has just made Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk, a Freeman of the club.

2003 F. J. Bremer John Winthrop iv. 87 Adam was apprenticed to a widow of the Merchant Tailors Company and admitted freeman of that guild in 1588.

3. Australian. A colonist not transported to Australia as a convict; (also) a freed convict. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers

pilgrim1630

originals1703

old settler1744

Big Knife1750

out-settler1755

provincial1756

Boer1776

freeman1791

Pilgrim Fathers1799

back-settler1809

undertaker1819

oecist1846

Argonaut1848

Canterbury pilgrim1850

poblador1850

shagroon1851

forty-niner1853

planter1858

inside squatter1881

local white1888

Minyan1928

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > former convict

freeman1791

expiree1802

old hand1826

emancipist1827

emancipatist1852

expirer1862

ex-convict1867

1791 P. G. King Jrnl. Norfolk Island 11 in Austral. National Dict. (1988) 260/2 Nine Freemen..had served their Terms of Transportation and..were permitted to become Settlers.

1804 Sydney Gaz. 25 Mar. 2 The people had applied to him for employ under the pretence of being freemen.

1865 ‘Special Correspondent’ Transportation 41 A strong cliqueism pervades the whole penal class against the free man.

1890 Times 8 Sept. 3/1 The ships are being loaded by freemen.

1902 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 May 31/2 The Spider, Rajah Riley, Pincher Wilson, and three other greycoats comprised the representatives of the bond, and compared very favorably with the six freemen, amongst whom was the gaol wood-carter.

1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 6/9 The two-acre island, where 1769 convicts and 189 freemen are buried.

4. North American. A fur trapper or hunter who, having formerly been employed by a particular company, continues thereafter to trap or hunt on his own account. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > hunter of specific animal > [noun] > of beaver

freeman1803

1803 A. Henry Jrnl. 15 Nov. (1988) I. 151 Those freemen are a nuisence in the Country and generally a parcel of scoundrels.

1828 J. McLoughlin Lett. (1941) I. 66 Mr. A. McLeod starts with the Willamette Freemen, on a Trapping Expedition South of the Willamette.

1852 Stansbury Great Salt Lake 239 Frappe had a party of what, in the language of the country, are called ‘free men’—that is, independent traders.

1934 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 21 53 Too small a percentage of its trappers were engagés, too large a percentage were freemen.

1980 J. S. H. Brown Strangers in Blood (1996) iv. 86 The bourgeois' control over their men was also continually limited by the latter's willingness to choose the option of remaining in the country as freemen instead of either returning to Montreal or pursuing their fur trade duties.

5. slang (chiefly British and Australian). freeman's key (also quay) (also with capital initial(s)): a (notional) place where, or set of circumstances in which, alcoholic drinks are offered free of charge. Cf. Harry Freeman's n. at Harry n.² Compounds 1b(b). Now rare. freeman's: short for freeman's key (also quay); (also) a free drink.The term is said to have arisen with reference to the name of a wharf near London Bridge: see J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (1864) 138.

ΚΠ

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Freeman's Quay,... To lush at Freeman's Quay; to drink at another's cost.

1837 Streetol. London Sept. 37 [He] requested me to name the liquor I meant to moisten my clay with, seeing that I was at ‘Freeman's Quay’. I thought I might as well make the most of a good thing.., so ‘brandy and water’ was the reply.

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 49 He's a hout-and-hout free chap, 'cos he's so much at freeman's key.

1915 ‘Alpha’ Reminisc. Goldfields i. 51 He..usually went on the spree every second month, and while in that state lost more than he made, the house being freeman's key for a time, until he again sobered up.

1981 D. J. Wilcox & E. L. Rantzen Kill Chocolate Biscuit i. 31 ‘Usually I only drink freeman's.’ ‘What's that?’ said Esther. ‘You know, freeman's, the drink you don't pay for,’ she replied.

1999 J. Cameron Brown Bread in Wengen 204 Booze on the freeman's you hear what I'm saying?

Derivatives

† freemanlike adv. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 273 Children, whiche are more liberally and more freemanlike handled of theyr fathers.

ˈfreemanship n. the position or status of a freeman (sense 2), with its rights and privileges.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > freeman or not slave > position of

freemanship1576

society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > one possessing freedom of a city or company > status of freeman

freemanship1576

1576 T. Hill Moste Pleasaunte Arte Interpretacion of Dreames (new ed.) sig. Fv He hath atteyned three names for one as two of the names to come, by his freemanship.

1827 J. B. Felt Ann. Salem 532 In 1646, he was for a more lenient policy, as to the Anabaptists and for greater liberty, as to terms of freemanship.

1873 W. McDowall Hist. Dumfries xxviii. 315 He had to serve other three years..before he could aspire to freemanship.

1914 W. H. Dawson Munic. Life & Govt. Germany iii. 64 Occasionally the freemanship of a town is conferred on residents and others who have distinguished themselves by local enterprise or public work.

1995 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 7/6 Today the benefits of Freemanship are largely notional, often granting holders such dubious privileges as keeping their swine on the common land or walking the town streets with sword unsheathed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	freeman
释义	freemann. Brit. /ˈfriːmən/, /ˈfriːman/, U.S. /ˈfrimən/, /ˈfriˌmæn/ Inflections: Plural freemen. Forms: see free adj., n., and adv. and man n.¹ Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian frīmann , Middle Dutch vrīman (earliest as a personal name; Dutch vrijman , now rare), Middle Low German vrīman , Old High German frīman (Middle High German vrīman , German Freimann , now rare) < the Germanic base of free adj. + the Germanic base of man n.¹Also attested early as a personal name and surname: Friumon (9th cent.), Freman Sceil (1188), Willelmus Freman (1196), Reginald le Freman (1221), etc. 1. Originally: a man who is personally free; a man who is not a slave or serf. Later also: a man who is politically free; a man enjoying the rights and liberties of a free society, as opposed to a tyrannical regime or totalitarian rule.In later use the one-word form has tended to be used exclusively with reference to freedom from slavery, whereas when referring to political freedom the two words are more likely to be used as a transparent collocation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > freeman or not slave freeeOE freemanOE franklin1377 free-soiler1848 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > one who is politically free freemana1616 OE Genesis A (1931) 2176 Hwæt gifest þu me, gasta waldend, freomanna to frofre, nu ic þus feasceaft eom? OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. xlv. §1. 342 Gyf freoman [lOE Corpus Cambr. 383 frigman] freolsdæge wyrce, þonne gebete þæt mid his halsfange. lOE Laws of Æðelred II (Rochester) i. i. 216 Þæt ælc freoman getreowne borh hæbbe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15577 Þu nahtes i nane stude habben freo-monnes ibude. a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 65 (MED) Wyþ freomen þu art ferly feid. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. vi. 8 Whethir seruaunt, whether fre man. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16022 All þai gadird o þe tun, bath freman and dring, And sent to pilate. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 178 Fremann, made of bonde, Manumissus. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 179 (MED) Of Henry Doylly þe Secunde and of all his ffree men tenauntes (or holders) of the ffee of Doylly. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxij^v/1 A free man shal not be amercyed for a litel trespace but after y^e maner off the trespace Saue his contenement. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. xxiii. 30 I call him a yeoman whom our lawes doe call Legalem hominem,..which is a freeman borne English. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 24 Had you rather Cæsar were liuing, and dye all Slaues; then that Cæsar were dead, to liue all Free-men ? View more context for this quotation 1654 T. Fuller Ephemeris Parliamentaria 459 No Free-man shall be imprisoned without due processe of the Law. 1714 Spectator No. 607. ⁋12 The Steward shall cause these two Neighbours to swear..if he be a Free-man, or a Villain. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 733 He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free And all are slaves beside. 1793 R. Burns Scots, wha Hae in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 708 Free-man stand, or Free-man fa'. 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 98 A coloured free-man. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 222 Injustice, whether existing among slaves or freemen. 1922 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 102 78/1 What the American labor movement holds is that..we stand ready to give where we can give as freemen to freemen, with honesty on both sides. 1942 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 7 346 Although a majority of Negroes were slaves many were freemen. 1984 M. Bloch Marxism & Anthropol. (BNC) 32 Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman..stood in constant opposition to one another. 2000 H. S. Pyper in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 674/2 In classical Greece, voices were raised at times in protest against the ill-treatment of slaves and the enslavement of innocent freemen. 2. A person (esp. a man) who possesses the freedom of a city, borough, company, guild, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > one possessing freedom of a city or company freeman1387 baron1576 charterer?1592 libertine?1611 livery1630 liveryman1641 1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 34 The eleccion of Mairaltee is to be to the fre men of the Citee. 1422 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 132 (MED) We endite John london, Foreyn, & his whif, for thei retaille chaffer as fremen. 1480 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 37 The said merchand sall sell his corne to fremen as best he may. 1545 in J. B. Paul & J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1883) III. 758/1 The nerrest of the faderis kyn,..beand fremen and induellar within the said burgh. 1571 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 339 Noe freman of the Cytie..shall grynde from the said milles any kynd of grayne. 1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 680/1 If any Free man of this City, use to resort into the Countries neere to this City. 1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 34 The Rights..are not only granted to the Mayor, but to the Free-men and Barons. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 121 Both having been made Free-men on the same Day. c1744 Parl. Bill in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea (1753) II. xii. 66 The oath to be taken by the freemen of the said company. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 474 The son and heir of a freeman succeeds to his inheritance within the borough unencumbered by the debts of his father. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. ix. 730 The electors [of the Council] are citizens, burgesses, or freemen. 1901 Amer. Hist. Rev. 6 263 The franchise was limited to freeholders, and to freemen of the corporations. 1958 D. S. Lovejoy Rhode Island Politics & Amer. Revol. i. 7 In 1756 the freemen of the town sent him as a deputy to the General Assembly. 1976 Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 12 I Zingaria [sc. a cricket club]..has just made Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk, a Freeman of the club. 2003 F. J. Bremer John Winthrop iv. 87 Adam was apprenticed to a widow of the Merchant Tailors Company and admitted freeman of that guild in 1588. 3. Australian. A colonist not transported to Australia as a convict; (also) a freed convict. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers pilgrim1630 originals1703 old settler1744 Big Knife1750 out-settler1755 provincial1756 Boer1776 freeman1791 Pilgrim Fathers1799 back-settler1809 undertaker1819 oecist1846 Argonaut1848 Canterbury pilgrim1850 poblador1850 shagroon1851 forty-niner1853 planter1858 inside squatter1881 local white1888 Minyan1928 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > former convict freeman1791 expiree1802 old hand1826 emancipist1827 emancipatist1852 expirer1862 ex-convict1867 1791 P. G. King Jrnl. Norfolk Island 11 in Austral. National Dict. (1988) 260/2 Nine Freemen..had served their Terms of Transportation and..were permitted to become Settlers. 1804 Sydney Gaz. 25 Mar. 2 The people had applied to him for employ under the pretence of being freemen. 1865 ‘Special Correspondent’ Transportation 41 A strong cliqueism pervades the whole penal class against the free man. 1890 Times 8 Sept. 3/1 The ships are being loaded by freemen. 1902 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 May 31/2 The Spider, Rajah Riley, Pincher Wilson, and three other greycoats comprised the representatives of the bond, and compared very favorably with the six freemen, amongst whom was the gaol wood-carter. 1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 6/9 The two-acre island, where 1769 convicts and 189 freemen are buried. 4. North American. A fur trapper or hunter who, having formerly been employed by a particular company, continues thereafter to trap or hunt on his own account. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > hunter of specific animal > [noun] > of beaver freeman1803 1803 A. Henry Jrnl. 15 Nov. (1988) I. 151 Those freemen are a nuisence in the Country and generally a parcel of scoundrels. 1828 J. McLoughlin Lett. (1941) I. 66 Mr. A. McLeod starts with the Willamette Freemen, on a Trapping Expedition South of the Willamette. 1852 Stansbury Great Salt Lake 239 Frappe had a party of what, in the language of the country, are called ‘free men’—that is, independent traders. 1934 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 21 53 Too small a percentage of its trappers were engagés, too large a percentage were freemen. 1980 J. S. H. Brown Strangers in Blood (1996) iv. 86 The bourgeois' control over their men was also continually limited by the latter's willingness to choose the option of remaining in the country as freemen instead of either returning to Montreal or pursuing their fur trade duties. 5. slang (chiefly British and Australian). freeman's key (also quay) (also with capital initial(s)): a (notional) place where, or set of circumstances in which, alcoholic drinks are offered free of charge. Cf. Harry Freeman's n. at Harry n.² Compounds 1b(b). Now rare. freeman's: short for freeman's key (also quay); (also) a free drink.The term is said to have arisen with reference to the name of a wharf near London Bridge: see J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (1864) 138. ΚΠ 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Freeman's Quay,... To lush at Freeman's Quay; to drink at another's cost. 1837 Streetol. London Sept. 37 [He] requested me to name the liquor I meant to moisten my clay with, seeing that I was at ‘Freeman's Quay’. I thought I might as well make the most of a good thing.., so ‘brandy and water’ was the reply. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 49 He's a hout-and-hout free chap, 'cos he's so much at freeman's key. 1915 ‘Alpha’ Reminisc. Goldfields i. 51 He..usually went on the spree every second month, and while in that state lost more than he made, the house being freeman's key for a time, until he again sobered up. 1981 D. J. Wilcox & E. L. Rantzen Kill Chocolate Biscuit i. 31 ‘Usually I only drink freeman's.’ ‘What's that?’ said Esther. ‘You know, freeman's, the drink you don't pay for,’ she replied. 1999 J. Cameron Brown Bread in Wengen 204 Booze on the freeman's you hear what I'm saying? Derivatives † freemanlike adv. Obsolete ΚΠ 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 273 Children, whiche are more liberally and more freemanlike handled of theyr fathers. ˈfreemanship n. the position or status of a freeman (sense 2), with its rights and privileges. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > freeman or not slave > position of freemanship1576 society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > one possessing freedom of a city or company > status of freeman freemanship1576 1576 T. Hill Moste Pleasaunte Arte Interpretacion of Dreames (new ed.) sig. Fv He hath atteyned three names for one as two of the names to come, by his freemanship. 1827 J. B. Felt Ann. Salem 532 In 1646, he was for a more lenient policy, as to the Anabaptists and for greater liberty, as to terms of freemanship. 1873 W. McDowall Hist. Dumfries xxviii. 315 He had to serve other three years..before he could aspire to freemanship. 1914 W. H. Dawson Munic. Life & Govt. Germany iii. 64 Occasionally the freemanship of a town is conferred on residents and others who have distinguished themselves by local enterprise or public work. 1995 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 7/6 Today the benefits of Freemanship are largely notional, often granting holders such dubious privileges as keeping their swine on the common land or walking the town streets with sword unsheathed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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