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man-of-war|ˌmænəvˈwɔː(r)|
Also man-o'-war. Pl. men-of-war.
[In sense 1 app. after F. homme de guerre; for sense 2 cf. man n.1 14.]
1. A fighting man; a soldier, warrior. Obs. exc. arch. or jocular.
1449Rolls of Parlt. V. 148/1 They desired to have nombre of Men of werre made lesse. 1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 466 Had thai bene prouuait sa of schote of gone By men of were but perile thay had past. 1535Coverdale Exod. xv. 3 The Lorde is the right man of warre [1611 a man of warre (lit. from Heb.)]. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 114 b, Souldiers and men of war, desire a fierse Horse. 1608Extracts Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) I. 287 The saidis bailleis,..bieing convenit for outreiking of thair men of weir to thair Ilis..hes delyverit the armour following,..to the said men of weir..viz. to Jhone Hammiltoun ane hagbit and flassis [etc.]. 1626C. Potter tr. Sarpi's Hist. Quarrels 330 The Leuies of men of Warre within the State of Milan euery day increased. 1698Farquhar Love & Bottle i. (1699) 3, I dread these blustring Men of War, the Officers. 1840Thackeray Catherine vi, The men of war had clearly the best of it. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. lxviii, The distinguished man of war..Master Bloxham.
2. a. A vessel equipped for warfare; an armed ship belonging to the recognized navy of a country.
1484W. Cely in C. Papers (Camden) 144 As he cam to Callez wardd ij men of warre of Frensche mett wt hym and fawght wt hym. 1594Glenham's Newes fr. Levane Seas in Collier Illustr. Old Eng. Lit. (1866) I. 4 In sight of the King of Spaynes men of warre, which were twenty two sayles. 1680Debates in Parlt. (1681) 120 It [Tangier] will always be Serviceable, as well for our Men of War to resort to..as for the protection of our Merchant-men. 1759Ann. Reg. 36 A fresh water harbour, capable of containing an hundred men of war of the line. 1887Besant The World went, etc. iii. 28 If he who has commanded a man-of-war is not to have his own way in everything, who should?
attrib.1748Anson's Voy. iii. x. 415 At Canton..we saw no more than four men of war junks. 1859All Year Round No. 22. 519 The man-of-war brig. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Man-of-war fashion, a state of order, tidiness, and good discipline.
b. occas. A man-of-war's man (see c).
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 27 Hee is first broken to the Sea in the Herring mans Skiffe..once hartned thus, hee will needes be a man of warre..and weare a siluer Whistle. 1884H. Collingwood Under Meteor Flag xxiv. 258 My father..led the way to the library, with the skipper following... When the man-o'-war rejoined us, the first thing he did was [etc.].
c. man-of-war's-man: a sailor serving on a man-of-war.
1774J. Andrews Let. 30 Dec. (1866) 79 Partaking of the extreem ill qualities of a soldier as well as that of a man-of-war's man. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xx. 60 [He] was a singular mixture of the man-of-war's-man and Puritan. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. (ed. 2) 152 A man-of-war's man should lose no opportunity of volunteering to lay out targets. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Feb. 124/4 ‘Matelot’ is undoubtedly the French for sailor, but we are not told that it is the English man-of-war's-man's name for himself.
3. (In full man-of-war bird or † man-of-war hawk.) The frigate-bird, Fregata aquila. Also applied to the albatross and occas. to species of skua (Newton).
1657R. Ligon Barbados 61 There is a Bird they call, a Man of war, and he is much bigger than a Heron. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 30 We saw here several Tropick-Birds, and Men of War Birds. 1789P. Browne Jamaica 483 The Man-of-war Bird; or the dark-coloured Alcyon with a slender forked tail. 1862Wood Nat. Hist. II. 762 The well-known Frigate Bird, Sea Hawk, or Man-of-War Bird. 1885Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 184 The ‘man-of-war hawk’, as they [frigate-birds] are often called. 1906W. L. Sclater Birds S. Afr. IV. 495 The ‘Cape Sheep’, ‘Great Albatros’, ‘Man of War Bird’ and ‘Goney’ are all names which are sometimes applied to this bird [sc. the wandering albatross]. 1949M. Lowry Let. May (1967) 178, I think he [sc. Melville] is confusing it with his man-of-war bird, the frigate bird. 1952E. Hemingway Old Man & Sea 30 He saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky. 1962Times 6 Apr. 7/2 (Advt.), Some of the country's most spectacular birds live here [sc. in the Florida Everglades]. The snowy egrets, cranes, water turkeys, man-o-war birds, scarlet ibis, [etc.].
4. Portuguese man-of-war: A marine hydrozoan of the genus Physalia; so called from the fact of its floating on the surface of the sea with a sail-like crest displayed.
1707Sloane Jamaica I. 7 What the Seamen call a Caravel or Portuguese Man of War, which seems to be a Zoophytum, or of a middle Nature between a Plant and an Animal. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 188/2 The Portuguese man-of-war (physalia) with its long azure tentacles.
5. Mining. (See quots.)
1860Eng. & For. Min. Gloss. (S. Staffs.), Man-o'-war, a small pillar left in some critical situation in a side of work.
6. Used attrib. to designate a boy's garment resembling that worn by a sailor, a sailor suit. Obs. exc. Hist.
1883in L. de Vries Victorian Advts. (1968) 49 Man-o'-war suit. Complete 10/9. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 Apr. 2/5 (Advt.), Stylish summer hats for little boys and girls... Duck man-o-war hats tams. 1922Joyce Ulysses 341 His little man-o'-war top and unmentionables were full of sand. 1965Cunnington & Buck Children's Costume in Eng. 183 There was the man-o'-war suit..complete with lanyard, knife and good conduct stripes. |