sightsman

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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]

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