English

Noun

daysman ‎(plural daysmen)

1. (archaic) An arbiter, referee, mediator.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Job 9:33:

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

   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.85:

     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 […]’.

   • 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:

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

2. A labourer who works during the day.

Anagrams

• man-days
• mandyas