spearman
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See also: Spearman
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
spearman (plural spearmen)
- A soldier who fights with a spear.
- 1844, James Selkirk, Recollections of Ceylon, page 65:
- The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen whipcrackers.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 79:
- He spoke : the brawny spearman let his cheek Bulge with the unswallow'd piece, and turning stared;
Translations[edit]
soldier with spear
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