ppl. a. Equipped with a proper complement of men.
c. 1450. Contin. Brut, 469. Grete vessels,… stronge and well-manned.
1482–3. Paston Lett., III. 294. With ij. good carts well mannyd and horsyd.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xviii. (1912), 460. A well-mand Galley.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 191. Then should the sucking Elephant support Upon his shoulders a well-manned Fort.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 2. Six great and wel-mann’d ships.
a. 1684. R. Leighton, Comm. Pet. i. 5. (1693), 64. So long as the place … is of sufficient strength and well man’d … they are in safety.
1720. Ramsay, Prosp. Plenty, 181. A wood o’ masts, wiel mann’d.
1835. Dickens, Sk. Boz, River. A well-manned galley shoots through the arch.
1869. A. R. Wallace, Malay Archipelago, II. 59. Their long well-manned praus.
