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wherryman|ˈhwɛrɪmən|
Pl. -men. Forms: see wherry n.1; also 6 whirriman, 6–7 wherriman.
[f. wherry n.1 + man n.1 4 p.]
A man employed on a wherry (sense 1 or 2).
1535Coverdale Ezek. xxvii. 28 All whirry men, and all maryners vpon the see. 1542in Sel. Pleas Crt. Admiralty (Selden Soc.) I. 116 John Peers..of the parishe of Sainte Olyff in the Burge of Sowthwerke wherryman. 1549Latimer 6th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 176 There is neuer a whirriman at Westminster brydge, but he can answere to thys. 1593Bacon Let. to Earl of Essex 10 Nov., As he that is an excellent wherryman, who you know looketh towards the bridge when he pulleth towards Westminster. 1661in Extr. St. Papers rel. Friends Ser. ii. (1911) 130 Thomas Tracey of Great Yarmouth..wherryman. 1766Entick London IV. 145 The society of watermen and wherrymen. 1905A. I. Shand Days of Past ii. 19 They had run the old wherrymen and scullers off the Thames.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) Index 178. 1893 P. H. Emerson (title) On English Lagoons, being an account of the Voyage of Two Amateur Wherrymen on the Norfolk and Suffolk Rivers and Broads. 1897Daily News 14 Dec. 5/3 Wherrymen and anglers report the destruction of large numbers of coarse fish in the lower reaches of the Norfolk tidal rivers. |