Guinea-man
(ˈgɪnɪmən)
1. A vessel trading to the coast of Guinea; hence, a slave-ship. Obs. exc. Hist.
| c 1695 J. Miller Descr. New York (1843) 37 On board a small Guineaman. 1773 Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 46 A ship belonging to Liverpool, with 350 slaves on board, was lately carried into Barbadoes by another Guineaman, after a smart engagement. 1800 Capt. Cunningham in Naval Chron. IV. 417 The Dick Guineaman, of Liverpool. 1834 M. Scott Cruise Midge i. (1836) 6 The bars of the various African rivers where the contraband Guineamen were in the habit of lurking. 1881 Clark Russell Ocean Free Lance II. iv. 167 With the hope of netting one of the numerous contraband Guineamen crossing the Atlantic for the Spanish Main. |
† 2. A Guinea merchant. Obs. rare.
| 1756 Spence Anecd. (1858) 281 Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. ‘Nephew, (said Sir Godfrey,) you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world’. ‘I don't know how great you may be, (said the Guinea-man), but I don't like your looks: I have often bought a man, much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas’. |
3. A native of Guinea.
| 1830 Capt. H. Crow Mem. 168 Convinced me that there were more untruths said of Guineamen than any other class of people. 1846 Mrs. Gore Eng. Charac. (1852) 92 Dissimilar in aspect and aspirations as a Guineaman and a Hindoo. 1866 Whittier Marg. Smith's Jrnl. Prose Wks. 1889 I. 14 His skin was swarthy, not black like a Moor or Guinea-man, but of a color not unlike that of tarnished copper coin. |
4. (With small g.) nonce-uses. One who earns guinea fees (as a juryman); also, a subscriber of a guinea per annum to a society.
| 1810 [see Guinea trader]. 1818 Bentham Ch. Eng. 232 This impertinently intruding guinea-man at Sion-College. |