spearsman

English

Etymology

spear +‎ -s- +‎ -man

Noun

spearsman (plural spearsmen)

1. Alternative form of spearman
   • 1900, Emerson Hough, The Girl at the Halfway House‎^[1]:

     It was his claim that no Sudanese spearsman or waddling assegai-thrower could harm him so long as he was mounted and armed, and he boasted that no horse on earth could unseat him.

   • 1909, Various, Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12)‎^[2]:

     Agamemnon, a goodly king and a mighty spearsman, is the Greek warrior whose name thou dost ask.

   • 1915, Emma Look Scott, How the Flag Became Old Glory‎^[3]:

     As when the Trojan hero came from that fair city's gates, With tossing mane and flaming crest to scorn the scowling fates, His legions gather round him and madly charge and cheer, And fill besieging armies with wild disheveled fear; Then bares his breast unto the dart the daring spearsman sends, And dying hears his cheering foes, the wailing of his friends, So Albert Sidney Johnston, the chief of belt and scar, Lay down to die at Shiloh and turned the scales of war.

Anagrams

• Parmesans, parmesans