puntmann.
/ˈpʌntmən/, U.S. /ˈpəntmən/, Australian English /ˈpʌntmən/ Now chiefly Australian.
= puntsman n.
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1851 Times 16 Apr. 7/4 Samuel Kemp, the celebrated fisherman and puntman of Teddington.
1863 in C. W. Hatfield Hist. Notices Doncaster (1866) I. 94 A puntman..stalking to a flock of wild-ducks in the twilight.
1894 Daily News 6 Dec. 5/2 In the early part of the eighteenth century a puntman named John Reeves, at Essex Stairs, near the Temple, gained a good living by taking anglers out in his boat.
1937 Rep. Comm. Seafisheries Newfoundland & Labrador 35 The Punt Man who with another fisherman fishes with hand-lines, jiggers, trawls and cod-nets.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) vii. 99 It is difficult to look haughty and bored while holding on your hat and holding down your skirt beneath the ardent gaze of Sam the puntman.
1987 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 17 Jan. The children particularly like to take free rides [on the ferry] and all the puntmen..must be chosen for their amiability.
2005 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 21 May 116 Early residents struggled with long boat trips from Sydney to Parramatta, unreliable ferrymen and late-night cooees to call a puntman to cross the river.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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