NOR'MAN, noun In seamen's language, a short wooden bar to be thrust into a hole of the windlass, on which to fasten the cable. NOR'MAN, noun [north-man or nord-man.] A Norwegian, or a native of Normandy. NOR'MAN, adjective Pertaining to Normandy; as the norman language.
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