moormann.1
/ˈmʊəmən/, /ˈmɔːmən/, U.S. /ˈmʊrm(ə)n/ Chiefly British.
1. An official who is responsible for a moor or an area of moorland, or for the livestock grazing on it. Now historical.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > official in charge of moor or fen
fen-reeve1654
moorman1687
1687 in A. Croke Case of Otmoor (1831) 38 Every man that keeps cattle upon the More, shall bring his cattle to the Moor-man to be branded.
1885 Sat. Rev. 5 Sept. 322 Dartmoor is divided into four quarters,..and there is a functionary called par excellence a Moorman, who has charge of each quarter on behalf of the Duchy.
1896 S. Baring-Gould Dartmoor Idylls 204 The moormen demand a certain sum for every beast..turned out... The moorman undertakes in return that the beast shall be recoverable, and that no wilful damage shall be done to it.
1988 J. Purseglove Taming Flood ii. 31 Otmoor was similarly controlled by a moor court, upon which the local villages were represented by two ‘moor men’.
2. A person who lives on a moor.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on moor or heath
moorlander1643
moormana1712
heath-cropper1819
moorsman1889
a1712 A. Symson in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1907) II. 70 It [sc. Minnigaff] hath a very considerable market every Saturday frequented by the moormen of Carrick, Monnygaffe and other moor places.
c1790 M. Hunter Jrnl. (1894) 74 The Moormen fight cocks, and are very fond of the diversion.
1832 A. E. Bray Let. in Descr. Part Devonshire I. ii. 23 The moormen most commonly convey their peat, and all things else, on what is called a crook.
1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl I. vi. 123 The best pedestrian upon ordinary roads will find himself tried by the swinging step of the moorman on his native soil.
1923 J. Buchan Midwinter i. 34 My companions are the moor-men and..the raggle-taggle gypsies.
1990 Field Feb. 47/1 The eternal moor men, those who have hunted and lived on the forest for some 60 seasons, are the custodians of all that is good and natural on Exmoor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Moormann.2
/ˈmʊəmən/, /ˈmɔːmən/, U.S. /ˈmʊrm(ə)n/ Now archaic or historical, and rare.
= Moor n.2 1, 2.
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society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > person
Saracenc893
Mahomet1508
Mahometista1513
Mahometan1529
Turk1548
Mahomite1559
Mussulman1570
Ismaelite1571
Mahometician1588
Moor1588
Islam1613
Muslim1626
Mahometant1635
Mohammedan1663
Moorman1696
Unitarian1708
Islamite1786
Muslimin1819
Muslimite1840
Islamist1849
1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 394 Each Thursday Night he craves leave of going home, because he is a Moor-man and Married.
1763 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan 29 The Moormen..make them (of whom they have no jealousy) the ministers of their oppression.
1836 Lett. from Madras (1843) 41 I gave some embroidery to be done by a Moorman recommended by my tailor.
1850 J. G. Whittier Derne 113 Men speak the praise of him who gave Deliverance to the Moorman's slave.
1889 Ceylon Observer 4 May The gem was bought in by the owner. I hear since that some of the Moormen who came for the sale have made offers.
1897 Tablet 16 Oct. 606 Whether the man be a Christian, Jew, Agnostic, Buddhist, Mormon or Moorman.
2002 www.lanka.net 4 Apr. (O.E.D. Archive) By the 1881 census there was a clear consolidation of communal differences in the colonial census, and presumably racial imagination. There were only seven races left, namely, Europeans, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moormen, Malays, Veddas and Others.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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