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Word entry · 8 letters

spearman

Best crossword clue

"Ancient javelin fighter"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersSorted aaemnprsStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A soldier, guard, or hunter armed with a spear.

Word origin

From spear + -man.

Used in a sentence

  • The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen whipcrackers.
  • He spoke : the brawny spearman let his cheek Bulge with the unswallow'd piece, and turning stared;
  • All around here the spearmen would hide, armed with those terrible shovel-balded spears that will kill a bullock at seventy yards.

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