oversman

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English

Etymology

From over +‎ -s- +‎ -man.

Noun

oversman (plural oversmen)

  1. An overseer or superintendent.
  2. (Scots law) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters disagree.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oversman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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