logman
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
logman (plural logmen)
- A man employed to carry or transport logs.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- To make me slave to it; and for your sake
Am I this patient log-man.
- A logger
References[edit]
- “logman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.