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billman|ˈbɪlmən|
[f. bill n.1 + man.]
a. A soldier armed with a bill.
b. A watchman similarly armed.
c. A labourer using a bill.
1530Palsgr. 198 Bylman in a batayle, halebardier. 1552Huloet, Byll man, falcarius. 1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. i. xxiv. (1591) 15 Cocceius Proculus, a bilman of the Garde. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 163 Enter Constable and Bilmen. 1606Sylvester Captaines 242 A sort of lusty Bill-men, set..to fell a Cops. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. ii. i. 62 Four thousand whifflers and billmen. 1861Dixon Bacon iv. §17 The Bowmen of Cressy, the billmen of Boulogne. |