Home › Words › R › reedmanreedmanreedman means A surname.EtymologyFrom reed + -man.nameA surname.nounSomeone who plays a reed instrument.e.g.“In Chicago he'll hook up with reedman Douglas Ewart, bassist Yosef ben Israel, and drummer Hamid Drake, and you can bet it won't be boring.” — 1989 July 7, Neil Tesser, “Dennis Gonzalez Quartet”, in Chicago Reader:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).