Crossword clues for landman
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
alt. 1 Someone who lives or works on land, as opposed to a seaman. 2 In the United States, a person involved in determining, transferring, or managing mineral rights, to include oil (petroleum) and natural gas exploration, development, and production. n. 1 Someone who lives or works on land, as opposed to a seaman. 2 In the United States, a person involved in determining, transferring, or managing mineral rights, to include oil (petroleum) and natural gas exploration, development, and production.
WordNet
n. a person who lives and works on land [syn: landlubber, landsman]
Wikipedia
Landman may refer to:
- Landman (rank), a defunct naval rank
- Landman (oil worker), a person whose work is focused on mineral rights, to include oil ( petroleum) and natural gas exploration, development, and production.
- Landman (surname)
A Landman or "Petroleum Landman"—in the United States and Canada—is an individual who performs various services for oil and gas exploration companies. According to the website of the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL), these services include but are not limited to: negotiating for the acquisition or divestiture of mineral rights; negotiating business agreements that provide for the exploration and/or development of minerals; determining ownership in minerals through the research of public and private records; reviewing the status of title, curing title defects and otherwise reducing title risk associated with ownership in minerals; managing rights and/or obligations derived from ownership of interests in minerals; and unitizing or pooling of interests in minerals.
Landman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrès Landman (born 1976), Dutch speed skater
- Fred Landman (born 1956), Dutch-born Israeli professor of semantics
- Jeffrey Landman (born 1978), American child actor
- Jonathan Landman (born 1952), American journalist
- Yuri Landman (born 1973), Dutch artist and musical instrument maker
Usage examples of "landman".
At half-past three in the morning, well before daylight, the mounted infantry picket at the junction of the roads from Landmans and Vants Drifts was fired into by the Doornberg commando, and retired upon its supports.
Patrick Wade, landman, 21, born County Fermanagh, prest 20 November 1796 at Porto Ferraw, discharged 11 November 1799 to Bulldog, per order Captain Darley.
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.
Yet within seconds the dashing figures of men and boys, marines and landmen were formed into compact groups, each being checked by leather-lunged petty officers against their various lists and watch-bills.