spearman

See also: Spearman

English

Etymology

From spear +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

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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;

Translations

soldier with spear

• Arabic: رَمَّاح (rammāḥ)
• Bulgarian: копиеносец m (kopienosec)
• Catalan: llancer m
• French: lancier (fr) m, piquier (fr) m
• Greek: λογχοφόρος (el) m (lonchofóros)

  Ancient: αἰχμητής m (aikhmētḗs)

• Hungarian: dárdás (hu)
• Kalmyk: җидч (jidç)
• Persian: نیزه‌دار (neyze-dâr), سرباز نیزه‌دار (sarbâz-e neyze-dâr)
• Romanian: sulițar (ro) m
• Swedish: spjutkastare (sv) c

Anagrams

• Parmesan, Pearmans, parmesan