midman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A worker with a status lower than that over master or overseer, but greater than that of apprentice or boy.
noun
A sailor whose area of responsibility is in the middle of a boat.
Example Sentences
- "Coordinate term: midwoman"
- "In the course of time the man-midwife or midman has displaced the midwife to an assistant position."
- "This practice contributes to the emergence of the Earth's Guides of the Passage, in each of us as midwife, or "midman", of the Passage."
- "If you do become a midwife or midman, you are allowed to get remarried if you wish to do so."
- "until fit hospitals can be built and endowed, a midman be appointed in every city or county town, and demonstrate to them the truth of their doctrines on the poor of the neighbourhood, of which there are plenty everywhere."
- "one of these seats is called in the North the 'house father's chair', and is never filled except by the head of the family; that which stands opposite to it is reserved for the principal guest, or for the midman who is of most importance in the household."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
midmen (plural)
mid-man (alternative)