broadmann.
/ˈbrɔːdmən/, U.S. /ˈbrɔdmən/, /ˈbrɑdmən/ Now rare.
A man who lives or works on the Norfolk Broads; spec. one who works on a wherry (wherry n.1 2). Cf. broadsman n. 2, broad n.1 5.
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1853 Zoologist 11 4073 The shrewd descriptions of the broad-man.
1884 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 145 The Broadman's food is chiefly fish and fowl.
1897 H. Brittain Rambles in E. Anglia xi. 138 Harry and Percy had been making friends with an old broadman in the ‘tap-room’ of the ‘Malsters’.
1974 P. Turner & R. Wood Emerson 102/1 This old Broadman has been along the Broad edge, cutting his schoof-stuff, and is now rowing it home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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