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lithsman Hist.|ˈlɪθsmən|
[OE. liðsmann, a. ON. liðsmað-r (accus. -mann), f. liðs, genit. of lið host + maðr man.]
A sailor in the navy under the Danish kings of England.
11..O.E. Chron. an. 1036 (Laud MS.) Þa liðs men on Lunden ᵹecuron Harold to healdes ealles Engla landes. 1848Petrie & Stev. Chron. 95 The thanes..and the ‘lithsmen’ at London. 1848Lytton Harold iii. ii, ‘The lithsmen of London’, cried a Saxon thegn, ‘are all on his side, and marching already through the gates’. 1865Kingsley Herew. (1867) I. 11 He succeeded, by the help of the..lithsmen of London,..in setting his puppet on the throne. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. vi. 485 A new element, the ‘lithsmen’, the nautic multitude of London. |