Definition of hillman in English:
hillman
nounPlural hillmenˈhɪlmən
An inhabitant of hilly country.
Example sentencesExamples
- To Hunter the Santals and the hillmen of the western frontier of Bengal were a ‘manly race’.
- It's a new unit, modelled after the tactics of the hillmen they've been fighting.
- A petition from a discontented hillman evocatively recalled a golden age when the villagers had full control over their forest habitat.
- The richest pilgrims were carried up in wooden palanquins by tough, wiry hillmen.
- Southern Army has been spread out chasing hillmen and guarding caravans.
- ‘Don't worry about her, lass,’ she said, a faint tinge of hillmen's brogue in her speech, ‘she's a healthy girl, and she'll heal quickly.’
- The other side of the valley is harassed by the hillmen from the surrounding mountains.
- The hillmen usually found their way into the 17th Dogra Regiment, the 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, the 19th Hyderabad Regiment, and into Dogra companies in Punjabi regiments.