spearman

From spear +‎ -man.

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spearman (plural spearmen)

1. A soldier or warrior who fights with a spear.
   • 1844, James Selkirk, Recollections of Ceylon, page 65:

     The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen whipcrackers.

   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 79:

     He spoke : the brawny spearman let his cheek Bulge with the unswallow'd piece, and turning stared;

   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 65:

     Then an old spearman will speak while they are drinking[.]

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