ˈmarshman
A dweller in marshy country; an inhabitant of a particular stretch of marshland, e.g. Romney Marsh.
| 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 38 Sharpe cutting spade, for the deuiding of mow, with skuppat and skauel, that marsh men alow. 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1540/2 That sir Thomas Scot would throughlie informe himselfe by conference with the marshmen. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 350 In the Saxons time the inhabitants heereof [Rumney] were called Mersc-ware, that is Marshmen. 1827 Sporting Mag. XX. 39 These birds (colymbus minutus) are..called by the Marshmen Spider Divers. 1889 Doyle Micah Clarke 294 The riot had now changed into open mutiny among these marshmen and miners. |