womans

Verb

woman (third-person singular simple present womans, present participle womaning or womanning, simple past and past participle womaned or womanned)

1. To staff with female labor.
   • […]he should prove, from the testimony of the most experienced seamen, that the vessel was, if not, strictly speaking, sufficiently manned, yet that she was sufficiently manned and womanned. The Gypsey was a vessel of 43 tons burden, and there were on board two able seamen and the Captain’s wife...1813, “Yorkshire Assizes. May a woman be deemed a sailor sufficient in manning a vessel? Case of Insurance.—Cook v. Thompson.”, in The Literary Panorama, […], volume XIV, London: […] Cox and Baylis...
2. (transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.
   • I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
   • And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
4. (transitive) To call (a person) “woman” in a disrespectful fashion.

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