Meaning of hireman | Babel Free

Definitions

hireling

Scotland, archaic

Examples

“Also it is ordered that if any hireman or apprentice . . . not lowly and gentle to his said master, and to the officers going about for to search⟳, and doing their duty to the said searchers and officers, the said master to present⟳ all such defaults unto the searchers and stewards, that they inform⟳ the twelve sworn men of all such faults as is found ; and also if the said hireman or prentice do not their duty in working of his work⟳ as he ought for to do, and their master letting it over past and unreformed until the said occupation, shall make⟳ it be reformed and remedied for the honesty of the said company; […]”

“The maiden fair cried aloud for joy, and then the hireman chiel knew that she was true to him, and he said: — "If you love⟳ me well, stretch⟳ out your hand to me." So the maiden fair stretched out her hand to the hireman chiel in the ploughman's frock, and the baron swore a great oath and galloped away through the stagnant pool.”

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