billman

American  

[bil-muhn] / ˈbɪl mən /

noun

• billmen
  plural

1. bill.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• billmen
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of billman

First recorded in 1520–30; bill ³ + -man

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

billman billmen

In the first year of Elizabeth, it is recorded that there was in the parish church of Darley, Derbyshire, “within ye steepul both harnes and weapons in redynes for one billman and for one archer.”

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews

In archery, above all, none could match them; for were not their ancestors the stout bowmen and billmen whose cloth-yard shafts, and trenchant weapons, won the day at Flodden?

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

The four or five soldiers of the village—a couple of billmen and pikemen and a real gunner—stood apart in an official group, but did not salute him.

From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

Indeed the watch were, as a rule, as unwilling to interfere with dangerous revellers as were the billmen of Messina, and seem to have been little better than thieves or Mohocks themselves.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy

He was accompanied by his billmen, together with some half-dozen attendants, clad in shirts of chain mail and helmets fitting close to the head.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

The warship was a merchantman, on board of which a number of fighting-men, knights, men-at-arms, archers and billmen were embarked.

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by John Richard Hale

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