dutchman

noun4

1. •
   A piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible a void or cavity that is to be repaired.
2. •
   A flaw or void repaired with such a piece.
3. •
   A cloth strip attached to a flat to conceal a joint.
4. •
   Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman (“a ghost ship”).

noun5

1. •
   A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.

   • The Dutchman hit his 33rd league goal of the calendar year to move him three behind Alan Shearer's record of 36. — 2011
2. •
   Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship.
3. •
   (US) A male Pennsylvania German.
4. •
   (South-Africa, offensive) A male white Afrikaner.

   • […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners. — 1990
5. •
   (no longer used, old-fashioned) A male German.

   • […]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz. — 1974