† lodemann.
Obsolete.
In Old English, a leader, guide; in later use only spec. a pilot.
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c1000 Ælfric Numbers x. 31 Þu canst wegas geond þæt westen; ac beo ure ladmann.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg. 4. 27) 1485 Hypsipyle If they were brokyn or ought wo begon Or haddyn nede of lodman [Arch. Seld. ladman] or vitayle.
a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 11 The lode man a bove that schuld sownd yerne Lakyth brayn, and also the lanterne ys owt.
1536 tr. Laws of Oleron in Black Bk. Admiralty (Rolls) I. 129 If a ship is lost by default of the lodeman, the maryners may..bring the lodeman to the windlass or any other place, and cut off his head.
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