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landman|ˈlændmən|
[OE. landmann, f. land land n.1 + mann man n. Cf. MHG. lantman native, mod.G. landmann, Du. landman countryman, peasant, farmer. Cf. landsman.]
†1. A man of a (specified or indicated) country. = countryman 1. Obs. rare.
a1000Cædmon's Exod. 179 (Gr.) Feond onseᵹon laðum eaᵹan landmanna cyme. c1000Ordin. Dunsæte c. 6 in Schmid Gesetze 360. 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. i. vii. 29 The Englishman of many other nations is least atheisticall..; but..he may fall not unlikely sometimes as any other land man into an uncouth opinion.
2. A countryman, peasant.
(In Carlyle, after G. landmann.)
a1300Cursor M. 28072 Nu sal i tell þe..Hu þu sal sceu þi scrift to preist,..Þat landmen mai sumquat lere, To scape þair scrift wit þis samplere. Ibid. 29411 Quen he [a clerk] chaunges crun or wede, And funden [es] in land mans dede. 1497Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 60 That euere burges sal inbring certaine landmen, out duellaris..to remane within the tone. 1543Ibid. 191 The toune is hauely murmurit be the landmen. 1825Carlyle Schiller iii. (1845) 215 They are no philosophers or tribunes, but frank, stalwart landmen.
3. = landsman 2. Now rare or Obs.
1480Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 9, iij. M. men, lande men and maryners..arrayed for the werre. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. iii. 11 If tomorrow Our Nauie thriue, I haue an absolute hope Our Landmen will stand vp. 1664J. Keymor Dutch Fish. 6 Thus they make their Landmen Seamen, their Seamen Fishermen, their Fishermen Mariners. 1752Fielding Amelia iii. iv, What inspires a landman with the highest apprehension of danger gives not the least concern to a sailor. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) II. 129 The Distinction between Landmen and Seamen on board, which used to create Animosity, and subject the Landmen to some Hardships. 1808G. Edwards Pract. Plan i. 7 The facility with which these convert landmen into sailors. 1846Whately Addit. Elem. Rhet. 3 Nautical terms..it is little loss to a landman to be ignorant of.
†4. A man having landed property. Obs.
1562A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) i. 156 But kirkmennis cursit substance semis sweit Till landmen, wt þat leud burd lyme are lyttit. 1670Blount Law Dict. (1691), Landman, the Terre-tenant. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. iii. (1737) 405 A Gentleman of three Generations claims Precedency from any ordinary Land-man, who has but newly acquired his Lands.
Add:5. U.S. Oil Industry. An agent employed by an oil company who researches property titles and negotiates with landowners for leases of mineral rights, land for drilling, etc.; = leaseman s.v. *lease n.3 4 b.
[1923Federal Reporter (U.S.) CCLXXXIX. 829 The plaintiff, through its vice president, Mr. Williams, and its lease and land man, Mr. Ford, agreed to withdraw from the association with the Allied Oil Corporation.] 1937Ibid. 2nd Ser. XCIII. 640/1 They went to a hotel room of Mr. Davis, land man for Stearns-Streeter Company. 1962H. Spence Portrait in Oil ii. 22 Another landman made an oral agreement to buy for $5,000, the lease on a farm adjacent to a drilling operation. 1978Oil & Gas Jrnl. 9 Jan. 124/1 Douglas E. Masten, petroleum geologist, and P. D. Masten, landman, have opened consulting offices at Midland, Tex. 1990Nation's Business Mar. 6/2 Since I had only a rudimentary education in the oil business, I decided to learn the industry from the bottom, with a job as a landman. |