Leadsman is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 376 anagrams from letters in leadsman (aadelmns).
First recorded in 1500-10; lead2 + 's1 + -man
Also, the breast-rope which is made fast to the shrouds to protect the leadsman.
Now another of the leadsman's weaknesses gained the upper hand.
The halt is a matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman.
"By the mark seven," sung out the leadsman in the starboard chains.
The anchor plunged over and the cable roared out, then a leadsman forward gave their soundings.
He slowed the freighter to a snail's pace when he approached the dredged channel, and at last the leadsman found suitable bottom.
The monotonous cry of the leadsman in the chains was the only sound audible.
At the same moment the leadsman in the chains gave his warning cry: “Three fathoms only, and shoaling fast!”
She lurched across with dry decks, and when the leadsman got deeper water the pilot brought her round and pulled up his canoe.
This is strange language in the mouth of a leadsman's child!