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pikeman

American  
[pahyk-muhn] / ˈpaɪk mən /

noun

pikemen plural
  1. a soldier armed with a pike.


pikeman British  
/ ˈpaɪkmən /

noun

  1. (formerly) a soldier armed with a pike

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of pikeman

First recorded in 1540–50; pike 2 + -man

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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.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

On horseback, the warlord had to stand out from the anonymous mass of his footsloggers, archers and pikemen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Salinger's family and friends respect his hermitage and protect him like Swiss pikemen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the foreground, weary pikemen trudge downhill with their discouraged hounds.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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