[f. genit. of WAND sb. + MAN sb.1] An official who carries a wand or rod; a verger (VERGER2 1) of a cathedral. Cf. WAND-bearer.
1865. W. G. Palgrave, Arabia, I. iii. 109. After passing between files of wandsmen and swordsmen, Arabs and negroes, we entered on a small court.
1906. Times, 10 May, 3/6. The wandsmen of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
1912. Jerome, John Ingerfield, v. 210. Seizing the robe of a passing wandsman, he … inquired if the Bishop had yet left the Caihedral.
