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manxman
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Manxman may refer to:
- an inhabitant of the Isle of Man
- The Manxman — a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- The Manxman (novel) — an 1894 book written by Hall Caine
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HMS Manxman - ships of the Royal Navy
- HMS Manxman — formerly SS Manxman of the Midland Railway and later SS Manxman of the Isle of Man Steam Packet
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, an Abdiel class minelayer
- TSS Manxman — Isle of Man Steam Packet turbine steamer
- Manxman class minelayer — an alternative name for Abdiel class minelayer
- Manxman — a motorcycle manufactured by Excelsior (Coventry)
- Manxman — a motorcycle manufactured by Norton Motorcycles (Birmingham)
- Manxman — a motorcycle manufactured by Neville Evans (Wales)
- Peel Manxman is the earlier name of Peel Manxcar — a car made on the Isle of Man in 1955
Usage examples of "manxman".
The first two boats are to be put aboard the fleet transport Manxman, and it will save time if the same working parties are used.
He could feel the ship trembling to the regular thrust of the screws, as if Manxman were glad to be moving, free of the land, now that the uncertainty and frustration were over.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Manxman arrived at Ascension Island in the South Atlantic half a day ahead of schedule, despite heavy weather and strong winds for much of the passage.
Ross Blackwood was on the same bridge wing when Manxman got under way again.
Ross recalled the bundles of tough winter clothing which had been brought aboard almost as soon as Manxman had dropped anchor.
She would not share with this disapproving Manxman her shattered dream of matrimony, or her contradictory, incompatible longings.
What folly it would be to relinquish her long-held ambition because of a Manxman, for her past loves had always ended with loss.
Eager to see Oriana and her handsome Manxman together for the first time, she was disappointed that the singer and Suke Barry had traveled in one chaise, the baronet and his manservant in another.
She discovered the Manxman in a parlor, winding holland cloth around the delicate leg of a an Adam-style console table.
Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.
Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
The Manxman took the reel, and holding it high up, by the projecting handle-ends of the spindle, round which the spool of line revolved, so stood with the angular log hanging downwards, till Ahab advanced to him.
Ahab stood before him, and was lightly unwinding some thirty or forty turns to form a preliminary hand-coil to toss overboard, when the old Manxman, who was intently eyeing both him and the line, made bold to speak.
Goodman Colin Mac David a Manxman whom I remembered from when I was a very little girl.
It was taught by a learned and jolly Manxman, and he called it the Latin Academy.