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oversman en · NOUN

Etymology

From over + -s- + -man.

Meanings

1. (historical) An overseer or superintendent, especially of a mine
   • .On the forenoon of the next day two of the elders, decent pitmen, who happened to be on the night-shift, called in to give their verdict and to drop a word of advice. "A graund meetin'," said Pate Tamson, the oversman of No. 4; "what for didna ye tak' your stick and gie some o' the vaigabonds a clour on the lug? It wad hae served them weel!" 1900, :Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Stickit Minister's Wooing, The Respect of Drowdle:
2. (historical, qualifier:Scots law) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters disagree.

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overman