[f. TITHE sb.1 + MAN sb.1]
† 1. = TITHINGMAN1 a. Obs. rare.
c. 1450. Godstow Reg., 69. At þe lawdai … william edrich, tetheman, & his felawis I-swore, presentid þat [etc.].
† 2. U.S. = TITHINGMAN1 c. Obs. rare.
1638–9. Laws Maryland, in Archives Md. (1883), I. 54. The Lord of every Mannour … Shall yearly … nominate some Inhabitant of the Mannour … to be tithman of that Mannour.
† 3. One who pays tithes. Obs. rare.
1680. C. Nesse, Church Hist., 186. By their Seventh-year Sabbath they [Israelites] acknowledged that their Land belonged to God, and that they were onely Gods tenants and tythe-men.
4. A collector of tithes; = TITHING-MAN2 Now Hist.
1747. Hooson, Miner’s Dict., V iv. In my time I have known it taken every twentieth Dish in some Places by the Tythman; in others every tenth.
1772. T. Simpson, Vermin-Killer, 19. Crows are worse than tithe-men, as they take their tithes at three different times a year.
c. 1830. Glouc. Farm Rep., 22, in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb., III. Nothing can be more galling to an industrious man, than that … the tithe-man should come and take the tenth of the fruits of his industry, capital and talent.
1898. J. A. Gibbs, Cotswold Village, 36. The titheman came with the parson’s horses and took the stuff away to the barn.
