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Abram-man en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Abraham man.
There is a trick for you to find out an Abram-man, and save sixpence when he begs of you as a disbanded seaman.
1823, Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well:Come, princes of the ragged regiment; / You 'o the blood, Prig, my most Upright-lord, / and these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Crank, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all.
c. 1620, Beggars' Bush, act 2, scene 1:
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