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acumen
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n 1: a tapering point
2: shrewdness shown by keen insight [syn: insightfulness,
acumen]
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adman
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n 1: someone whose business is advertising [syn: advertiser,
advertizer, adman]
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aircraftman
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n 1: a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force
[syn: aircraftsman, aircraftman]
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albumen
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n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues
and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen]
2: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective
gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly
of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from
the yolks of several eggs" [syn: egg white, white,
albumen, ovalbumin]
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albumin
0
n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues
and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen]
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anchorman
0
n 1: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which
several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor,
anchorman, anchorperson]
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backwoodsman
0
n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman,
backwoodsman, mountain man]
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bagman
0
n 1: a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn:
traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial
traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman]
2: a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money
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bandsman
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n 1: a player in a band (especially a military band)
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bargeman
0
n 1: someone who operates a barge [syn: lighterman,
bargeman, bargee]
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batman
0
n 1: an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
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batsman
0
n 1: (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter,
hitter, slugger, batsman]
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beadsman
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n 1: a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another [syn:
beadsman, bedesman]
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bellman
0
n 1: someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier
around hotels [syn: bellboy, bellman, bellhop]
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bitumen
0
n 1: any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of
hydrocarbons
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boatman
0
n 1: someone who drives or rides in a boat [syn: boatman,
boater, waterman]
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bogeyman
0
n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn:
bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger]
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bondman
0
n 1: a male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman,
bondsman]
2: a male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman]
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bondsman
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n 1: a male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman]
2: someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else [syn:
bondsman, bondswoman]
3: a male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman,
bondsman]
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bookman
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n 1: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone
who by long study has gained mastery in one or more
disciplines [syn: scholar, scholarly person, bookman,
student]
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brakeman
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n 1: a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes
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bushman
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n 1: a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who
live in southern Africa
2: a dweller in the Australian bush country
-
businessman
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n 1: a person engaged in commercial or industrial business
(especially an owner or executive) [syn: businessman,
man of affairs]
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cameraman
0
n 1: a photographer who operates a movie camera [syn:
cameraman, camera operator, cinematographer]
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cattleman
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n 1: a man who raises (or tends) cattle [syn: cattleman, cow
man, beef man]
2: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on
horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman,
cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]
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caveman
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n 1: someone who lives in a cave [syn: caveman, cave man,
cave dweller, troglodyte]
-
chessman
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n 1: any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the
game of chess [syn: chessman, chess piece]
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churchman
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n 1: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn:
cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic]
-
clansman
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n 1: a member of a clan [syn: clansman, clanswoman, clan
member]
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coachman
0
n 1: a man who drives a coach (or carriage)
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coastguardsman
0
n 1: a member of a coastguard
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cognomen
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n 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of
a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his
nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname
was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen,
sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]
2: the name used to identify the members of a family (as
distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: surname,
family name, cognomen, last name]
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committeeman
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n 1: a man who is a member of committee
-
congressman
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n 1: a member of the United States House of Representatives
[syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative]
-
councilman
0
n 1: a man who is a council member
-
cracksman
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n 1: a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents
[syn: safebreaker, safecracker, cracksman]
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craftsman
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n 1: a professional whose work is consistently of high quality;
"as an actor he was a consummate craftsman"
2: a creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was
made by internationally famous craftsmen" [syn: craftsman,
crafter]
3: a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn:
craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer]
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cragsman
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n 1: a climber of vertical rock faces [syn: rock climber,
cragsman]
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cyclamen
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n 1: Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for
its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and
nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed
petals [syn: cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens]
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dairyman
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n 1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: dairyman, dairy
farmer]
2: a man who works in a dairy
-
deliveryman
0
n 1: someone employed to make deliveries [syn: deliveryman,
delivery boy, deliverer]
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determine
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v 1: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment,
survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The
physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel
Prize" [syn: determine, find, find out, ascertain]
2: shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often
determines ability"; "mold public opinion" [syn: determine,
shape, mold, influence, regulate]
3: fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules" [syn:
determine, set]
4: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify
the parameters" [syn: specify, set, determine,
define, fix, limit]
5: reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We
finally decided after lengthy deliberations" [syn: decide,
make up one's mind, determine]
6: fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; "the tree determines the
border of the property"
7: settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the
argument" [syn: settle, square off, square up,
determine]
8: find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by
making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she
speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he
speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
[syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain,
watch, learn]
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dragoman
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n 1: an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman
Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of
European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and
most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in
the government)
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draughtsman
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n 1: a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines
[syn: draftsman, draughtsman, draftsperson]
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dustman
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n 1: someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse [syn:
garbage man, garbageman, garbage collector, garbage
carter, garbage hauler, refuse collector, dustman]
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earthman
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n 1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling,
earthman, worldling]
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everyman
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n 1: the ordinary person
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fieldsman
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n 1: a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than
batting [syn: fielder, fieldsman]
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fisherman
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n 1: someone whose occupation is catching fish [syn:
fisherman, fisher]
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foeman
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n 1: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing
military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his
enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition]
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footman
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n 1: a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a
palace) to run errands and do chores
-
freedman
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n 1: a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedman,
freedwoman]
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freshman
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adj 1: used of a person in the first year of an experience
(especially in United States high school or college); "a
freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or
college" [syn: freshman, first-year]
n 1: a first-year undergraduate [syn: freshman, fresher]
2: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer,
fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman,
newbie, entrant]
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frogman
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n 1: someone who works underwater [syn: diver, frogman,
underwater diver]
-
frontiersman
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n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman,
backwoodsman, mountain man]
-
gagman
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n 1: a comedian who uses gags [syn: gagman, standup
comedian]
2: someone who writes comic material for public performers [syn:
gagman, gagster, gagwriter]
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gasman
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n 1: someone employed by a gas company
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gentleman
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n 1: a man of refinement
2: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his
employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet,
valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman,
man]
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groomsman
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n 1: a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
-
groundsman
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n 1: someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or
athletic field) [syn: groundsman, groundskeeper,
groundkeeper]
-
guardsman
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n 1: a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or
`guards'
-
gunman
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n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman,
gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire,
triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
2: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn:
gunman, gun]
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handyman
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n 1: a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
[syn: handyman, jack of all trades, odd-job man]
-
hangman
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n 1: an executioner who hangs the condemned person
-
harvestman
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n 1: spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long
thin legs [syn: harvestman, daddy longlegs, Phalangium
opilio]
-
headman
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n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn:
headsman, headman]
2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief,
chieftain, chief]
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headsman
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n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn:
headsman, headman]
-
helmsman
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n 1: the person who steers a ship [syn: helmsman, steersman,
steerer]
-
henchman
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n 1: someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate,
collaborator, henchman, partner in crime]
-
herdsman
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n 1: someone who drives a herd [syn: herder, herdsman,
drover]
-
horseman
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n 1: a man skilled in equitation [syn: horseman, equestrian,
horseback rider]
2: a person who breeds and cares for horses [syn: horseman,
horse fancier]
-
houseman
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n 1: an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining
supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British
term) [syn: intern, interne, houseman, medical
intern]
-
huntsman
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n 1: someone who hunts game [syn: hunter, huntsman]
-
husbandman
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n 1: a person who operates a farm [syn: farmer, husbandman,
granger, sodbuster]
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iceman
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n 1: someone who cuts and delivers ice
2: a professional killer [syn: hatchet man, iceman]
-
jazzman
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n 1: a musician who plays or composes jazz music [syn: jazz
musician, jazzman]
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kinsman
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n 1: a male relative
-
landsman
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n 1: a person who lives and works on land [syn: landlubber,
landsman, landman]
2: an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage [syn:
landlubber, lubber, landsman]
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lawman
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n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace
officer]
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liegeman
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n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and
service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege,
liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]
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liftman
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n 1: a man employed to operate an elevator; "in England they
call an elevator man a liftman" [syn: elevator man,
elevator boy, liftman]
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lineman
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n 1: one of the players on the line of scrimmage
2: the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole
3: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone
lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]
4: (American football) the position of a player on a football
team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
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linesman
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n 1: official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists
the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of
bounds or offside)
2: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone
lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]
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linkman
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n 1: (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for
pedestrians in dark streets [syn: linkboy, linkman]
-
lumberman
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n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack,
logger, feller, faller]
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madman
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n 1: an insane person [syn: lunatic, madman, maniac]
-
mailman
0
n 1: a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman,
mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier]
-
marksman
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n 1: someone skilled in shooting [syn: marksman,
sharpshooter, crack shot]
-
merchantman
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n 1: a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in
foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter,
merchantman, merchant ship]
-
merman
0
n 1: United States singer who appeared in several musical
comedies (1909-1984) [syn: Merman, Ethel Merman]
2: half man and half fish; lives in the sea
-
middleman
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n 1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to
merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn:
jobber, middleman, wholesaler]
2: the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages
the others in talk [syn: interlocutor, middleman]
3: a person who is in a position to give you special assistance;
"he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the
governor" [syn: contact, middleman]
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midshipman
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n 1: a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training
-
militiaman
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n 1: a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies
-
milkman
0
n 1: someone who delivers milk
-
minuteman
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n 1: an American militiaman prior to and during the American
Revolution
2: a strategic weapon system using a guided missile of
intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear
warheads and dispersed in hardened silos
-
motorman
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n 1: the operator of streetcar
-
newsman
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n 1: a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
[syn: reporter, newsman, newsperson]
-
newspaperman
0
n 1: a journalist employed to provide news stories for
newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent,
newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]
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nobleman
0
n 1: a titled peer of the realm [syn: Lord, noble,
nobleman] [ant: Lady, noblewoman, peeress]
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oarsman
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n 1: someone who rows a boat [syn: oarsman, rower]