rare. [Cf. swordsman, townsman, etc.] = TONGUEMAN.
1596. Fitz-Geffray, Sir F. Drake (1881), 5. So he, and I his tongues-man, doe require Thy Sanctuarie.
1610. Chester’s Tri., Sp. Fame, 22 (Chetham Soc.). [To Mercury] Descend then Tongue’s man of the universe.
1837. C. Lofft, Self-formation, I. 252. Certain rough and ready tonguesmen … spoke, if not absolutely well, yet forwardly and fluently.
