daysman

English

Etymology

From day +‎ -s- +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdeɪzmən/

Noun

daysman (plural daysmen)

  1. (archaic) An arbiter, referee, mediator.
    • Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , 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.

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