fenman
noun
a dweller in the Fens of England.
fenmen
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pluralof fenman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"Our fenmen can wear a mail-shirt as easily as a frock, and handle a twybill as neatly as a breviary."
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
It is a poor bait, say these frogs of fenmen, that will not take two pike running.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
Skates are still called pattens by the fenmen of Cambridgeshire.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Then they tried to force some fenmen they caught to guide them to us at Othery.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Fierce as they were, these fenmen read in the Wesleys a will to match their own and beat it; a scorn, too, which cowed, but at the same time turned them sullen.
From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
