单词 | marchman |
释义 | marchmann. Now historical. 1. An inhabitant of the marches or border territories. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > border dweller marchman?a1380 marcher1384 bounder1542 borderera1552 border-man1620 ?a1380 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1909) V. 77 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 4600) XXV. 1 We ar marche men and dwellys owtmest and may ill be absent..for gret scathis apperande tyll us. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 1237 (MED) Thi marschall..thy mercy besekez..fore mendement of thi pople, Of þise marchez-men, that thus are myskaryede. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 2540 A watere..Þat with þa marchesmen [a1500 Trin. Dub. marche-men] Mocian was hatten. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccviiiv They..gatheryd to them a stronge hoost of men, as of Marche men and other. a1550 (?a1475) Battle of Otterburn (1959) 31 (MED) Syr henry perssy..had byn a marchman all his dayes. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 136 In the old Teutch or Dutch speach he was called a Marquier, that is to saye the marche-man or frontier man. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. xxx. 28 Now Bowden Moor the march-man won, And sternly shook his plumed head. 1889 J. Ruskin Præterita III. iv. 172 The marchmen..of Cheviot. 1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark (1933) xiii. 286 What of Usk and Wye and Teme and Clun, which the Marchmen must cross? 1956 A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. iv. 45 Examples of marchmen empire-builders are the Amorite rulers of Hammurabi's reconstituted ‘Empire of Sumer and Akkad’. 2. = marksman n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of hougher1712 white boys1762 Steel boy1772 defender1788 United Irishman1791 Orangeman1796 marksman1800 Thresher1806 marchman1814 Orangist1822 Rockite1824 Brunswicker1828 Terry Alt1831 whitefoot1831 Repeal Warden1841 Young Irelander1844 Fenian1864 Land-leaguer1878 invincible1883 leaguer1892 Provie1972 1814 Ann. Reg. 1813 Gen. Hist. 93/2 The oath of a Marchman or Marksman, the name of one further initiated into their secrets. 1814 Rules & Regul. Orange Soc. (Dublin) 5 A Marchman to take the same obligation. 1934 Freemasonry: Candid Exam. vii. 121 At first there was only one degree, but, in 1796, what is known as the Purple degree was added; this was also called the Marchman degree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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