spearman
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of spearman
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at spear 1, man
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The first guard appeared as they neared die horse lines, a lean spearman whose maroon beard marked him as Tyroshi.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
This man’s son had served under the great Odysseus, gone in the decked ships with him to the wild horse country of Troy—a spearman, Antiphos by name.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
To this Peiraios the good spearman answered: “Aye, stay in the wild country while you will, I shall be looking after him, Telemakhos. He will not lack good lodging.”
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
It is not a foul to have less, but the spearman must at once let it out if the umpire or the other crew cries "fathom!"
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
And you were a girl in Macedon when I was a spearman in the army of Alexander.”
From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville
In Homer’s “Iliad,” for instance, the Abantes, a faction of spearmen, are described as having “hair long at the back.”
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
A key military development unique to Greece was the phalanx: a unit of spearmen standing in a dense formation, with each using his shield to protect the man to his left.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
He’s waiting for a certain young lady and her dragons before he commits his Dornish spearmen to battle.
From Forbes ● Jun. 8, 2015
PADDLE-FOOTING through blue-green waters off the Bahamas, these submarine spearmen are demonstrating one of the fastest growing of modern sports.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then all at once the crowd parted and seemed to dissolve, and there were the castle gates before her, and a line of spearmen in gilded halfhelms and crimson cloaks.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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