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lootsman

lootsman is the obsolete form 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 lootsman

plurallootsmen

Questions about lootsman

What is lootsman the obsolete form of?
Lootsman is the obsolete form of lodesman.

Words near lootsman in the dictionary

  1. lootocracy
  2. lootocrat
  3. lootocratic
  4. lootocrats
  5. loots
  6. lootsman
  7. lootsmen
  8. looty
  9. loover
  10. loovered
  11. loovers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lootsman (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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