lodesman

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From Middle English lodesman, lodesmon, lodysman (pilot, literally lode's or course's man), alteration of earlier lodeman, from Old English lādmann (a leader, guide), equivalent to lode (way, course) +‎ -s- +‎ man. Compare to lodemanage.

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lodesman (plural lodesmen)

  1. (historical, nautical) A pilot; navigator.
    • 2009, Erastus C. Benedict, The American Admiralty:
      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.
    • 2011, Anne Crawford, Yorkist Lord: John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, c. 1425 -1485:
      For much of the Middle Ages, ships had only three ranks of seamen: master, lodesman or navigator, and mariner.
    • 2014, Neil Jones, Paul Ridgway, Light Through a Lens:
      Such has always been the importance of preserving the life and cargo carried by ships that pilots (or 'lodesmen') have been employed for centuries as freelance mariners.

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