daysman

plural daysmen

1. archaicAn arbiter, referee, mediator.

   Now, my darlings, let mother be the daysman between you […].

   1901, David Bryant Fulton, Jack Thorne, Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly: A Story of the Wilmington Massacre, Online edition, Gutenberg Project, published 2009

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   Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 9:33

   in Switzerland (we are informed by Simlerus), ‘they had some common arbitrators or daysmen in every town, that made a friendly composition betwixt man and man[…]’.

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 85

2. A labourer who works during the day.