Crossword clues for landmen
landmen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landman \Land"man\, n.; pl. Landmen.
A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.
(Eng.) An occupier of land.
--Cowell.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of landman English)
Usage examples of "landmen".
And to be sure we could swap some of our landmen (not that we have many left, being as we've been in commission so long, and them as was going to run having run and most of the rest rated ordinary, if not able .
And to be sure we could swap some of our landmen (not that we have many left, being as we've been in commission so long, and them as was going to run having run and most of the rest rated ordinary, if not able.
The scene on deck was not unlike Cheapside with roadwork going on: two parties under the carpenter and his crew were making ready the places for the hypothetical bow and stern-chasers, and parcels of assorted landmen and boobies stood about with their baggage, some watching the work with an interested air, offering comments, others gaping vacantly about, gazing into the sky as though they had never seen it before.
They reached the Sophie, propelled Stephen and his belongings up the side - the larboard side, to avoid ceremony and to make sure they got him aboard: they had too low an opinion of landmen to allow him to venture upon even the Sophie's unaspiring height alone - and Jack led him to the cabin.
Hannibal, Swiftsure and Berwick: they were exercising their crews at reefing aboard the Hannibal, and quantities of people were creeping up the rigging of the Swiftsure, landmen under training, perhaps.