spearman

See also: Spearman

English

Etymology

spear +‎ -man

Noun

spearman (plural spearmen)

  1. 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;

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