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ledës-man

ledës-man is the obsolete spelling of leadsman.

Meaning of leadsman

Noun (1)

leadsman (plural leadsmen)

  1. (obsolete) lodesman (a leader or guide)

Noun (2)

leadsman (plural leadsmen)

  1. A sailor who takes soundings with a lead, measuring the depth of water.
    • In the same moment the leadsman hove the lead, and, finding it directly take the ground, he, in his fright, called out, ‘There's only three fathom.’1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 205

Forms of ledës-man

pluralledës-men

Questions about ledës-man

What is ledës-man the obsolete spelling of?
Ledës-man is the obsolete spelling of leadsman.

Words near ledës-man in the dictionary

  1. Ledwells
  2. Ledwith
  3. Ledwiths
  4. Ledyard
  5. Ledyards
  6. ledës-man
  7. lee
  8. Lee algorithm
  9. Lee Center
  10. lee cloth
  11. Lee County

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ledës-man (page history and authors); leadsman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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