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loadsman

loadsman is the obsolete spelling of lodesman.

Meaning of lodesman

Noun

lodesman (plural lodesmen)

  1. (historical) A pilot; navigator.
    • River and harbor pilotage, in English maritime affairs, is called loadmanage, from loadsman or lodesman, a kind of pilot established for the safe conduct of ships and vessels in and out of harbors, or up and down navigable rivers.2009, Erastus C. Benedict, The American Admiralty

Forms of loadsman

pluralloadsmen

Questions about loadsman

What is loadsman the obsolete spelling of?
Loadsman is the obsolete spelling of lodesman.

Words near loadsman in the dictionary

  1. loads up on
  2. loadsa
  3. loadsamoney
  4. loadsamoneys
  5. loadshedding
  6. loadsman
  7. loadsmen
  8. loadsome
  9. loadspace
  10. loadspaces
  11. loadstar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loadsman (page history and authors); lodesman (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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