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Definition of Baymen
1. bayman [n] - See also: bayman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baymen
Literary usage of Baymen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to by Richard R. Wilk (2006)
"... Pirates and baymen The first encounters between Europe and the Caribbean were
spectacularly destructive to the native people and culture of the islands, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1905)
"That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby empowered to enlist, or cause to be
enlisted, as many hospital stewards, baymen (first-class), baymen, and hospital ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"I intended to have consulted the baymen on resettling Honduras, when I was informed
that his Majesty's ships had been at the Gulf of Dulee, and not finding ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1891)
"In the eyes of the baymen all glory departed from their land when smuggling ...
Such things are handed down from father to son by the baymen, but there was ..."
5. Adventure Guide to Belize by Carol O'Donnell, Vivien Lougheed (2003)
"At the same time, colonies of log cutters, called baymen, were beginning to ...
Fighting between the baymen and the Spanish carried on for a century, ..."
6. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1885)
"Observing there were some houses near the fort which the Spaniards had neglected
to burn, parties of marines, baymen, and Indians occupied them, ..."
7. The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham by Basil Williams (1914)
"Under the Treaty of Utrecht the English ' baymen,' as they were called, ...
Pitt had already agreed, ' out of pure friendliness,' to turn the baymen out of ..."
8. The Kemble Papers by Stephen Kemble, Sir Henry Clinton, Daniel Jones, William Howe Howe (1885)
"This day six more guns Avere got up bv the seamen and baymen, ... Calling had
sent for the baymen, three others being unfortunately swamped coming on shore. ..."
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