Flot-man

According to the Old English Dictionary:

flot-man

Add; (1) a seaman, sailor :-- Sciplicum réþra l flotmanna herium classicis nautarum cohortibus, An. Ox. 22. Flodmanna, 3, 14. (2) a pirate :-- Flotman archipirata, i. summus latro, An. Ox. 4039. (2 a) used of the Scandinavians ravaging England :-- Engle tó swýðe geyrgde, and flotmen swá strange, Wlfst. 162, 16. Þas flotmenn cumað and þé cucenne gebindað . . . ofslægene fram þysum flotmannum, Hml. S. 32, 70, 77. Justum helium is rihtlic gefeoht wið ðá réðan flotmenn, 25, 708. flot-man