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Definition of Leadsmen
1. leadsman [n] - See also: leadsman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leadsmen
Literary usage of Leadsmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Professional recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c by Francis Liardet (1849)
"These tackles are required for so many purposes when setting up rigging generally,
that I have mostly seen a scarcity of them on such occasions. leadsmen in ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"Since 1879 the Secretary of State for India has given annual appointments as
leadsmen-apprentices in the Bengal Pilot Service.* Of the 160 Conway cadets, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"again sung the leadsmen. " Luff, boy, luff," cried the pilot ; and " Luff it is
... continued the leadsmen ; and the pilot immediately cried to the Captain, ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"The cries of the leadsmen began to rise out of the distance, ... The cries of
the leadsmen went on— and it is a weird sound, always, in the night. ..."
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