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Scotchman n. (pl. scotchmen)

A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman.

(Naut.) A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.

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Etymology of 'Scotchman'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scotchman" Quotes from Famous Books

... days of the "Finis Belli" and the coming of the first ironclads there were numerous projects of inventors. In 1805 a Scotchman, named Gillespie, proposed the mounting of guns and "ponderous mortars" in revolving armoured turrets, both in fortifications on shore and on floating batteries. Two years later Abraham Bloodgood, of New ...

— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale

... two. Fielding has as much human science; has a far firmer hold upon the tiller of his story; has a keen sense of character, which he draws (and Scott often does so too) in a rather abstract and academical manner; and finally, is quite as humorous and quite as good- humoured as the great Scotchman. With all these points of resemblance between the men, it is astonishing that their work should be so different. The fact is, that the English novel was looking one way and seeking one set of effects in the hands of Fielding; and ...

— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson

... and there were several articles which one could not account for having been forgotten on any other supposition than that the owners were travelling maniacs. One gentleman had left behind him a pair of leathern hunting-breeches, a soldier had forgotten his knapsack, a cripple his crutches! a Scotchman his bagpipes; but the most amazing case of all was a church door! We do not jest, reader. It is a fact that such an article was forgotten, or left or lost, on a railway, and, more amazing still, it was never claimed, but after having been ...

— The Iron Horse • R.M. Ballantyne

... up to my ears in freemasonry," she writes. "I cannot get away from the kaddosh, the Rose Croix and the Sublime Scotchman. The result of all this will be a mysterious novel." The mysterious novel was the Comtesse de Rudolstadt. Consuelo, who through her marriage with Albert is now Comtesse de Rudolstadt, continues her European tour. ...

— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic

... blinds ower the daylights o' a Scotchman," assured one old son of the heather. "I am verra pleased to leave the hale concern in your hands as I do believe you are thoroughly plumb and ...

— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse

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