topsman
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
topsman (plural topsmen)
- The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.
- The uppermost sawyer in a sawpit.[1]
- Synonym: topman
References edit
- ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “topsman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)