pikeman
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Did you mean pikeman, a soldier armed with a pike?
From Time ● Jul. 19, 2016
Entering a narrow passage-way, they traversed it until they came to a closed door, at each lintel of which stood a pikeman, fronted with a shining breastplate of metal.
From The Strong Arm by Barr, Robert
WYNN, pikeman of the dashing 22nd King's Ryol ridgemet of lanciers.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 17, 1917 by Various
On the contrary, Samson has become a Puritan: the observations he makes would have done much credit to a religious pikeman in Cromwell's army.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
They kept their matches ready, and, with each pikeman between two arquebusiers, Sargento-mayor Gallinato retreated to the city.
On horseback, the warlord had to stand out from the anonymous mass of his footsloggers, archers and pikemen.
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Salinger's family and friends respect his hermitage and protect him like Swiss pikemen.
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A panoply of pikemen stood stiff at attention in the Mansion House, seat of London's square-mile ancient center, as 360 dignitaries gathered for the opening of the first City of London festival.
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In the foreground, weary pikemen trudge downhill with their discouraged hounds.
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He saw that Ser Kevan had brought up his center in support of the van; his huge mass of pikemen had pushed the northerners back against the hills.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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