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Definition of Truchman
1. n. An interpreter. See Dragoman.
Definition of Truchman
1. Noun. An interpreter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truchman
1. an interpreter [n TRUCHMEN or TRUCHMANS]
Medical Definition of Truchman
1. An interpreter. See Dragoman. "And after, by the tongue, Her truchman, she reports the mind's each throw." (B. Jonson) Origin: Cf. F. Trucheman. See Dragoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truchman
Literary usage of Truchman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"To the illustrations in Nares and Halliwell add Whetstone, Heptameron, 'For he
that is the truchman of a strangers tongue may well declare his meaning'; ..."
2. The Chronicle of Froissart by Jean Froissart (1902)
"... had his truchman by him : he rode on before all his company, and made token
to speke with some ... Than the truchman said, ..."
3. English, Past and Present by Richard Chenevix Trench (1870)
"Truckman,' or more commonly ' truchman,' familiar to all readers of our early
literature, is only another form of this, which probably has come to us ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Jesuites But afterward by my Broker or truchman, I understood virus, quit in
me, and the other to murther me: but the ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"But afterward by my Broker or truchman, I understood that both hee and the ...
and the other to murther me : but the truchman received nothing till he had ..."
6. The Hawkins' Voyages During the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and by Clements Robert Markham, John Hawkins, Richard Hawkins, Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, William Hawkins, Christóval Suárez de Figueroa (1878)
"But afterward by my Broker or truchman, I vnderstood ... the other to murther
me: but the truchman receiued nothing till he had done the deed, ..."
7. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley (1780)
"And now I have with labour Attain'd thy language, I'll thy truchman * be, Interpret
for thee to ... 1 Til thy truchman be,} i, e, thine interpreter. ..."
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