topsman

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English

Etymology

From top +‎ -s- +‎ man.

Noun

topsman (plural topsmen)

  1. The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.
  2. The uppermost sawyer in a sawpit.[1]
    Synonym: topman

References

  1. ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 topsman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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