sightsman

English

Etymology

From sight +‎ -s- +‎ man.

Noun

sightsman (plural sightsmen)

1. (dated, music) A sight-reader.
   • 1842, The Musical World, volume 17, page 268:

     […] indeed the lessons are evidently the production of a man who either never knew, or has forgotten, the elementary steps and helps necessary to make the future sightsman.

References

• Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical.

Anagrams

• Miss Thang