billman

American  

[bil-muhn] / ˈbɪl mən /

noun

• billmen
  plural

1. bill.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• billmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of billman

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

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

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

"Let a hundred billmen be ranged with the second line of archers; and, at a word given, pass through and root up the stakes."

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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

Then for a while was almost silence; nor did our horns blow up, though some half-dozen of the billmen had leapt into the road when the bows first shot.

From A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson by William Morris