Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
saymaster .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who assays.
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- noun obsolete One who
assays .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He wasn't a bad sort of chap, an 'a good sayman, ivvry inch of him, though I used for to call him an ould thaife just
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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"And you're what ye call a British sayman, I suppose? the sorrow in your guts!" he cried.
The Wrecker 1898
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You're a good sayman for that same, says he, an 'it would be right at any other time than this present, says he, but it's onpossible now, tee-totally, on account o' the war, says he.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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Michael Sweeny, now; many's the anchor he's cast out, miles at a time, sayin 'he's been a sayman, and knows the says from top to bottom.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"What's the use of twenty pound to a sayman at say, where the grog's all wather an 'the beef's all horse?
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