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sidesman|ˈsaɪdzmən|
[f. side n.1 Cf. sideman.]
1. One of the persons elected as assistants to the churchwardens of a parish.
There is no foundation for the statement, which is as old as the 17th cent., that sidesman in this sense is a corruption of synodsman. In the 17th cent. assistant is sometimes used interchangeably with sidesman.
1632D. Lupton Lond. & Co. Carbonadoed, Apparators, They have much businesse with the Churchwardens and Sides-men. 1667Answ. Quest. out of North 12 There are in all, Threescore and fourteen thousand Churchwardens and Sides-men in England. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 171 A Gift of such Goods, made by them without the Consent of the Sides-men or Vestry, is void. 1766Entick London IV. 45 Two church-wardens, and two sidesmen. 1857Toulmin Smith Parish 70 A part of what has, more lately, been reckoned as one duty of the churchwardens,—the making of presentments—was formerly that of the Sidesmen only. 1898Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 5/1 General Moberly was for some twenty years a sidesman at this church.
fig. or transf.1644Bulwer Chiron. 7 But have likewise punctually set downe the office of these sides-men the Hands. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 210 Those Preaching sides⁓men of Prophesying Congregations. 1886J. Corbett Fall of Asgard II. 195 On either side, the men of understanding, whom the young king had taken for his sidesmen, had their place.
b. An assistant to a municipal or civil officer. local.
1835Municipal Corpor. Rep. 2585 The Sides-men [of Beaumaris] are assistants merely to the town stewards, and similarly appointed. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 156/1 The cutting of the wood in Wedholme fell into the hands of sixteen sidesmen elected by the tenants.
†2. A partisan; = sideman 2. Obs.
1648Milton Tenure Kings 41 How little leasure would they find to be the most pragmatical Sidesmen of every popular tumult and Sedition? 1651Cleveland Poems 22 He, with his little sides-man Lazarus.
3. A player in the game of bowls.
1843Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. 54 One of the sidesmen runs before, and lays himself down at the spot most suitable for the ball striking, in order that his marrow may direct his aim thither.
4. One who supports another from the side.
1863Pilgr. Prairies I. 271 Placing Wahtogachto on the quietest [horse], supported..by two able sidesmen, [they] took their way across the prairie. |