light-horseman

American  

[lahyt-hawrs-muhn] / ˈlaɪtˌhɔrs mən /

noun

plural

light-horsemen

1. a light-armed cavalry soldier.

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Etymology

Origin of light-horseman

First recorded in 1540–50; light horse + man

Example Sentences

Sullivan alleges that his troops had expended all their cartridges, and were alarmed by seeing the enemy gathering on their left, and by the cry of a light-horseman, that the enemy were getting round them.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

Estrad�iot, an Albanian dragoon or light-horseman, employed in the French army in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

The "light-horseman stanza" which Scott employed in his longer poems was caught from the recitation by Sir John Stoddart of a portion of Coleridge's "Christabel," then still in manuscript.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

"But it is probable," said the light-horseman, "that they will send pioneers this morning to repair the bastion."

From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre

Apache and Arapahoe, Comanche and Cheyenne, Sioux and Shoshone, they all had met, and many had measured spear with, the dark-eyed, curly-headed Kentucky light-horseman.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles