day man

noun

1. a seaman who is a member of a deck gang.
2. Also called idler. a member of a ship's company who does not stand watch and who ordinarily works only during the day, as a carpenter or sailmaker.

Word History and Origins

Origin of day man¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

I am not impelled by the archaic sex madness of the beast, nor by the obsolescent romance madness of later-day man.

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Present-day man possesses four bodies of increasing fineness, the elements of which interpenetrate.

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She had the seeing-eye and the hearing-ear for things that went unnoted by the every-day man and woman.

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This is the force of enlightened public opinion, the backing of the every-day man.

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My own belief is that no latter-day man has any faith in the thoroughness or permanence of his affection for his mate.

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