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fugleman|ˈfjuːg(ə)lmən|
Also fugelman, fugal man, flugleman, flugelman.
[ad. Ger. flügelmann leader of the file, f. flügel wing + mann man.]
a. A soldier especially expert and well drilled, formerly placed in front of a regiment or company as an example or model to the others in their exercises.
1804Morn. Chron. in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1805) VIII. 117 Time has utterly deprived these stiffening limbs of mine of all power to spring through the rapid motions of the fugle⁓man. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 143 Several times was Antony obliged to stand forth like a fugleman and repeat the sign. 1814W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXIV. 271 Like the flugelman of a regiment, he over-acts the movements which he would excite in others. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. I. v. v. 579 This Hohmann was now Flügelmann (‘fugleman’ as we have named it, leader of the file). 1886H. F. Lester Under two Fig Trees 229 With the captain as volunteer fugleman the colony quickly enrolled.
b. transf. and fig.
1814J. Gilchrist Reason 44 After the example of some great gardener who has been made flugle-man to all generations. 1827Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 120/2 We propose Lord Nugent as a political flugelman. 1845Miall in Nonconf. V. 33 What! must the state be fugleman to God's worshipers, that all may assume the same posture and bow alike? 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xliv. (1879) 388 Acting as fugleman for the approbation, which was judiciously thrown in from time to time. 1855E. Forbes Lit. Papers vi. 168 Popular guides to public collections are seldom of more value than the explanations of the fugleman of a raree-show. 1875F. Hall in Lippincott's Mag. XV. 342/1, I picked out their fugleman, a well-grown boar, and fired.
Hence ˈfuglemanship, the office and duties of a fugleman. Also by substitution, ˈfuglewoman, a woman who gives a signal.
1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) I. 37 Not the smallest regularity of fuglemanship or devotional drill-exercise. 1868Daily Tel. 27 May, Miss Tickletoby..well acting as fugle⁓woman to her eight-and-twenty boarders, waves her virtuous pocket-handkerchief in response to the salutations from a drag full of roystering young guardsmen. |