spearmann.1
/ˈspɪəmən/, U.S. /ˈspɪ(ə)rmən/ 1.
a. A soldier or warrior armed with a spear; one who carries a spear as a weapon.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > spear or lance
spearc1275
spearman1297
lance-knight1530
demi-lancer1552
demi-lancea1556
spearer1574
lance-man1589
lancer1590
javelineer1600
javelotier1600
lance1602
spearsman1836
javelin-man1846
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7753 Of kniȝtes & squiers, Speremen auote & bowemen, & al so arblasters.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 16671 The speremen ride, the bowemen schote.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xv. 220 To the ficht maknakill then Come with twa hundreth of gude sper-men.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 219 Thenne mounted spere men on horsback, and bygane euery man to marche forth in fayre aray.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 73 A valiant companie..of spearemen and horse departed away.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 451 Against whom was sent Lewis of Nassau, with 400 Spear-men.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. iii. 504 Beside him, he bade sleep the spearman bold.
1837 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone (new version) vi, in Poet. Wks. (new ed.) IV. 102 A Spearman brought him to the ground.
1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xi. 188 They [the Egyptian army] consist..of bowmen, spearmen,..and other corps.
b. A royal or civic officer bearing a spear.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > ceremonial officials > [noun] > spear-bearer
spearmanc1640
c1640 R. Sempill Life Pyper of Kilbarchan 29 At fairs he play'd before the Spear-men, All gaily graithed in their gear-men.
1670 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 3) at Pensioners The more noble sort of guard to the Kings person... In Hen. 8. time they were called Spearmen.
2. A spearer of fish.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using spear
spear-fisher1449
spear-fisherman1449
striker1697
spearman1815
gaff-man1875
grainer1894
spear-gunner1951
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 66 ‘The deil's in Gabriel!’ said the spearman, as the fragments of glowing wood floated..down the stream.
3. U.S. As an insect-name (see quot. 1869).
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 80 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Numbers of the Lebia grandis..were taken feeding on the larvæ of the ten-lined spearman (Doryphora 10-lineata).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Spearmann.2
/ˈspɪəmən/, U.S. /ˈspɪ(ə)rmən/ Statistics.
Used attributively and in the possessive to designate a coefficient devised by C. E. Spearman as a measure of the degree of agreement between two rankings, being their product-moment correlation coefficient; symbol ρ or R.
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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > variable > relationship between sets of variables > coefficient of correlation
correlation coefficient or coefficient of correlation1888
product moment1895
Pearson1903
rho1907
Spearman1907
phi coefficient1929
1907 Drapers' Company Res. Mem. (Biometric Ser.) 4 22 There is a further very serious indictment to be made against Spearman's R... R retains a constant value for wide variations in ρ12.
1942 Biometrika 32 277 The Spearman coefficient ρ may be regarded as a sample grade correlation.
1942 Biometrika 32 278 The error involved in using Spearman's ρ from a small sample.
1970 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 83 91 A Spearman rank correlation coefficient..between the median latency scores on the last day of training and the mean of the median latencies over the three days of testing produced a value of −·3.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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