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libertyman en · NOUN

Etymology

liberty + -man

Meanings

1. A sailor who is granted shore leave.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, Only a Subaltern https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Under_the_Deodars/Only_a_Subaltern With these counsels, and many others equally valuable, did Papa Wick fortify Bobby ere that last awful night at Portsmouth when the Officers' Quarters held more inmates than were provided for by the Regulations, and the libertymen of the ships fell foul of the drafts for India, and the battle raged long and loud from the Dockyard Gates even to the slums of Longport, while the drabs of Fratton came down and scratched the faces of the Queen's Officers.

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