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

All through the City the billmen and bowmen gathered.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

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

"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

Behind, at a short distance, came the battle of the King, consisting of heavy armed infantry, principally billmen, with a strong force of cavalry on either hand.

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

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