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

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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 archers and billmen of the middle ages, who, with provisions for forty days at their backs, left the fields for the camp, were troops of the same description.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

"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

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

There were bowmen and billmen from Cheshire and Lancashire under the Stanley banner; and James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, brought the banner of St. Etheldreda, the Northumbrian queen who founded the monastery of Ely.

From Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry

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