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† ˈlodesman Obs.
Also 3–6 lodes-, (4 lodez-, loodis-), 5–6 lodis-, lodys-, (5 ladis-, lods-, 6 lodse-, loades-), 6–8 loads-.
[Altered form of lodeman, on the analogy of genitival compounds, as doomsman.]
1. A leader, guide.
c1275Lay. 6245 And solleþ habbe lodes-men [c 1205 lædes⁓men] forþ ȝou to lede. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxxvii. (1495) 836 Tame swyne knowe theyr owne howses and home and lerne to come therto wythout guide and lodesman. a1400–50Alexander 4967 Þe lede at was þar ladisman. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 106 Y folowyde euermore my duke and lodisman sent Nicholas. 1528Roy Rede Me (Arb.) 72 Ruffian wretches and rascall Lodes⁓men of all knavisshnes. c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden 1846) I. 69 The legion whereof Manlius Valens was lodesmann. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 543 Be thou..our loadsman, guide, and captain. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vne Guide qui meine autruy, a leader, a guide, a loadesman. 1594Latimer 1st Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 21 To walke ordinatly with God and to make him his lodes man and chief guyde.
b. spec. Mil.
1581Styward Mart. Discipl. i. 46 The Sergeant..putteth them in araie that euerie man follow his lodseman, keeping his ranke fellowes iustlie on both sides. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxcix. 1241 Hee prouided them first of y⊇ principall point, which was, yt they might haue a good loadesman.
2. A pilot; a steersman.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 179 A lodes-mon lyȝtly lep vnder hachches. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. (Fairf.) 1488 Hypsip., If they were broken or woo begoon Or hade nede of lodesmen [v.rr. lodman, ladman] or vitayle. c1400Beryn 1601 Sir lodis⁓man, Stere onys into the Costis, as wel as evir thowe can. 1513Douglas æneis iii. vi. 224 He..gaif ws then Gentill horsis, pilottis, and lodismen. 1530Palsgr. 240/2 Lodes⁓man of a shippe, pilotte. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 22 b, The Englishe capitaines perceivyng that the haven was daungerous to entre without an expert lodesman. a1571Jewel Serm., Luke x. 23–4 (1611) 247 What, I pray you, betides vnto a Ship so tossed in the sea if there be no Lodes-man to steere it? 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Loadsman, a Guide or Pilot.
fig.1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 61/1 If we be benighted, in deede we are glad to haue the Moone shine, or the Starres to be our Lodesmen. 1581J. Studley Medea in tr. Seneca 136 b, Hesperus, the loadesman of the night. |