leadsman

leadsman englanniksi

1. (l) (a (l) or (l))

2. A (l) who takes (l) with a (l), measuring the depth of water.

3. 1808–10, (w), ''Memoirs of a Georgian Rake'', Folio Society 1995, p. 205:

In the same moment the leadsman hove the lead, and, finding it directly take the ground, he, in his fright, called out, ‘There's only three fathom.’