dutchman

plural dutchmen

1. businessA piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible a void or cavity that is to be repaired.
2. A flaw or void repaired with such a piece.
3. entertainmentA cloth strip attached to a flat to conceal a joint.
4. abbreviationellipsisnauticalEllipsis of Flying Dutchman (“a ghost ship”).

plural Dutchmen

1. A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.

   The Dutchman hit his 33rd league goal of the calendar year to move him three behind Alan Shearer's record of 36.

   2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2023

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   About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]

   1880 [1610 March 13], Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, “The Astronomical Messenger”, in Edward Stafford Carlos, transl., The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries: A Translation with Introduction and Notes, London: Rivingtons, translation of Sidereus Nuncius: […] , →OCLC, page 10

2. USA male Pennsylvania German.
3. archaicdatedA male German.

   […]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz.

   1974, Robert Blair, Tales of the Superstitions: The Origins of the Lost Dutchman's Legend

4. South AfricaderogatoryA male white Afrikaner.

   […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.

   1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54

5. abbreviationellipsisnauticalEllipsis of Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship.

1. USA nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

   President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].

   2003, James Bradley, chapter 8, in Flyboys, New York: Little, Brown and Company