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1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 29^v The toyle and payne of certayn day men, and hyred labourers [Gk. οἱ ἀγοραῖοι ἄνθρωποι καὶ οἱ χειρώνακτες].

1669 D. North Observ. & Advices Œcon. lxii. 94 In great Houses it is impossible to avoid day-men, since there is so much use of them about repairs, felling and making up of Wood, and such like matters.

1770 A. Young Farmer's Guide I. xx. 263 The labour of a farm is performed by either servants or day-men.

1839 Chamber's Edinb. Jrnl. 14 Sept. 272/1 When not mowing, the mowers are employed at other work in hay-making, receiving the highest wages paid to daymen.

1895 Econ. Jrnl. 5 74 The workmen being divided into eight categories, viz. hewers, carpenters, fillers, trammers, artisans, daymen, women-sorters, coke-workers, and women coke-workers.

1907 W. Page Victoria County Hist.: Gloucestershire II. 255 Carters, undercarters, shepherds, and cattlemen are usually engaged by the year, and receive higher wages than daymen.

1931 Jrnl. Royal Stat. Soc. 94 533 Men lost more time in good times than in bad, and that applied not only, as might be expected, to the piece-worker, but also to a very large extent to the dayman.

1998 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 36 733/1 The average hourly wages paid to daymen in the 23 leading coal states for the years from 1912 to 1923.

1880 Times 8 Oct. 8/5 The Liberal secretaries..mentioned the names of the chairmen, treasurers, executive ‘daymen’, and captains of the respective wards.

1881 Rep. Commissioners Corrupt Pract. Macclesfield 5 in Parl. Papers (C. 2853) XLIII. 1 Every such book was entrusted to a member of the committee, who..was responsible for it; and a certain number of other persons were appointed to assist the several captains, either as canvassers, both before and on the day of election, or as day-men merely for the polling-day itself.

1821 Caledonian Mercury 16 Apr. The pay of three daymen and three nightmen was regularly drawn beyond the number who were employed.

1898 McClure's Mag. Oct. 540/2 For heaven's sake, go wake up the day man.

1921 Soda Fountain Sept. 26/1 In the all-night drug stores of the Dow chain, the all-night man leaves his post each morning at seven, when the first day man takes charge of the soda fountain.

1954 Sewage & Industr. Wastes 26 343/1 The day man takes over where the night man leaves off.

2000 C. Harrison Afterburn 182 Now, hundred dollars a week is just fine for me, buddy, but I's the day man. Six to six. There's also the night man.

1860 G. S. Nares Naval Cadet's Guide 69 Where do the daymen and boys sleep? In the fore cockpit and galley, so as not to be disturbed when the watches are called.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 98 Marines, Idlers or Daymen.

1911 Coast Seamen's Jrnl. 9 Aug. 1/2 Certain men are kept on the regular watch-and-watch while the other members of the crew are what is called ‘day men’. The ‘day men’ work all day and are supposed to sleep all night.

1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) ii. 40 Idlers or daymen, who normally enjoyed an uninterrupted night's sleep,..were equally liable to be summoned by the pipe for all hands if their strength was required for pulling and hauling.

2010 Great Circle 32 79 Three teams of a 2nd and 3rd Engineer and a motorman keep watches, while daymen carry out routine maintenance and repairs on the main engines.