billman
noun
bill.
billmen
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pluralof billman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Next after these rode the sheriff of Merionethshire and his billmen, all in ancient costume: and then came the most interesting part of the cavalcade.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by Thomas De Quincey
An Anthony occurs among the billmen of Snitterfield in the muster book of 1569.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
