English edit

Etymology edit

From sight +‎ -s- +‎ man.

Noun edit

sightsman (plural sightsmen)

  1. (dated, music) A sight-reader.
    • 1842, The Musical World, volume 17, page 268:
      [] indeed the lessons are evidently the production of a man who either never knew, or has forgotten, the elementary steps and helps necessary to make the future sightsman.

References edit

  • Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical.

Anagrams edit