lodesman
Noun
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Noun
lodesman (plural lodesmen)
- (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.
- 2009, Erastus C. Benedict, The American Admiralty:
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