loadsman

loadsman. Hist.

1. A person who directs a ship’s course from a small boat traveling in front of the larger ship rather than from the ship itself. • The loadsmen had a monopoly on piloting in the cinque ports. See CINQUE PORTS.

2. A person who took the ship to a berth after a pilot had brought it into port. — Also spelled loadman; lodeman; lodesman.

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