"mainmastman" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mainmast",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "mainmast + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "mainmast + -man",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mainmastmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mainmastmen"
      },
      "expansion": "mainmastman (plural mainmastmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -man",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sailing",
          "orig": "en:Sailing",
          "parents": [
            "Nautical",
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1863, William H. Parker, Questions on Practical Seamanship: together with harbor routine and evolutions prepared for the midshipmen of the C. S. Navy, Richmond, Virginia, page 40",
          "text": "[…] the mainmastmen unhook the tackles when the barrels are landed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
          "text": "Now there was a veteran aboard who because his years began to disqualify him for more active work had been recently assigned duty as mainmastman in his watch, looking to the gear belayed at the rail roundabout that great spar near the deck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Fishing Gazette, volume 96",
          "text": "Twenty-two years ago David Harrington was mainmastman on the Saint Ann out of Gloucester, Mass., a 62-foot Desco wood shrimp boat rigged for purse seining and built in 1954 for Capt. Leo Favalora.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sailor assigned to the mainmast"
      ],
      "id": "en-mainmastman-en-noun-VWEGxUN1",
      "links": [
        [
          "mainmast",
          "mainmast"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mainmastman"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mainmast",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "mainmast + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "mainmast + -man",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mainmastmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mainmastmen"
      },
      "expansion": "mainmastman (plural mainmastmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms suffixed with -man",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Sailing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1863, William H. Parker, Questions on Practical Seamanship: together with harbor routine and evolutions prepared for the midshipmen of the C. S. Navy, Richmond, Virginia, page 40",
          "text": "[…] the mainmastmen unhook the tackles when the barrels are landed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
          "text": "Now there was a veteran aboard who because his years began to disqualify him for more active work had been recently assigned duty as mainmastman in his watch, looking to the gear belayed at the rail roundabout that great spar near the deck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Fishing Gazette, volume 96",
          "text": "Twenty-two years ago David Harrington was mainmastman on the Saint Ann out of Gloucester, Mass., a 62-foot Desco wood shrimp boat rigged for purse seining and built in 1954 for Capt. Leo Favalora.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sailor assigned to the mainmast"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mainmast",
          "mainmast"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mainmastman"
}