DCHP-1 Online

Dutchman † 

• 1 n. a settler of German extraction, especially during colonial days, as a Pennsylvania Dutch Loyalist or as in the Lunenburg region of Nova Scotia.

  See also: Dutch ((n.))  Dutch ((adj.))  

  • 1829  Water may attract the willow to a certain extent, which may account for the Dutchman's art in discovering spring-wells with a forked stick.
  • 1853  I hired a Dutchman from the settlement with his lumber-sleigh and span of horses to move my family. . . .
  • 1903  "Th' only man es I've iver heered on, es could beat Nathan at th' table wuz Schmidt, th' Dutchman. . . ."
  • 1916  ". . . I'm a Nova Scotia Dutchman, but I can spot an old country Deutscher ten faddom away. . . ."

• 2 n. Obs. a keg of liquor.

  • 1830  (1953)  There is also a keg of liquor (called the Dutchman) from which the people are drammed three or four times a day, according to the state of the Weather.