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Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male
sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the
qualifying part of the compound; ashman, butterman,
laundryman, lumberman, milkman, fireman,
showman, waterman, woodman. Where the
combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the
compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate
substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth
man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as
distinguished from woodman).

Man ape (Zoöl.), a anthropoid
ape, as the gorilla. -- Man at arms, a
designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier
fully armed. -- Man engine, a mechanical
lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances;
specifically (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or
descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft
and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and
down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings.


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