daysman

English

Etymology

From day +‎ -s- +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪzmən/

Noun

daysman (plural daysmen)

1. (archaic) An arbiter, referee, mediator.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 9:33:

     Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , New York, 2001, p.85:

     in Switzerland (we are informed by Simlerus), ‘they had some common arbitrators or daysmen in every town, that made a friendly composition betwixt man and man […]’.

   • 1901, David Bryant Fulton, Jack Thorne, Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly: A Story of the Wilmington Massacre, Online edition, Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     Now, my darlings, let mother be the daysman between you […].

2. A labourer who works during the day.

Anagrams

• man days, man-days, mandyas