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ˈglass-man
1. A dealer in glass-ware.
In 16–17th c. the hawking of glass was often a pretext for begging; see quots.
1597–8Act 39 Eliz. c. 4 §15 This Statute..shall [not] extend..to any such Glassemen as shalbe of good Behaviour, and do travaile in or through any Cuntry without begging, having lycense for their travayling. 1619Dalton Countr. Just. xlvii. (1630) 123 All Pedlers, pettie Chapmen, Tinkers and Glassemen wandering abroad. 1667Boyle in Phil. Trans. II. 592 Glass-mens Shops are not near so well furnisht as the Stationers. 1712Addison Spect. No. 535 ⁋⁋6, 7. a 1745 Swift Direct. Serv. i. (1745) 35 The Profit of Glasses..consists only in a small Present made by the Glass-man. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 7 Mr. Samuel Brooks, glass-man, in the Strand. 1848Wharton Law Lex., Glass-men, wandering rogues or vagrants. 1 Jac. I. c. 7.
2. A man engaged in the making of glass.
1610B. Jonson Alch. iii. i. F 3 b, Where haue you greater Atheists then your Cookes? Or more prophane, or cholerick, then your Glasse-men? 1626Bacon Sylva §399 Fire doth it not [sc. doth not make men black], as wee see in Glassemen, that are continually about the Fire. 1703T. S. Art's Improv. p. xiii, In the Glassmans Trade, and Looking-glass makers. 1765Delaval in Phil. Trans. LV. 20 The glass-men tinge their glass green therewith. 1866Tate Brit. Mollusks iv. 116 The glass-men of Newcastle once a year have a snail feast. |