"highman" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Middle English heimon",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "high",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "high + man",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English heimon, equivalent to high + man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "highmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "highman (plural highmen)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, The New sporting magazine, page 88",
          "text": "If not riding for life, that he is riding for immortality; and as the hero may perchance feel (for even a highman may feel like a hero), when he willingly throws away his existence in the hope of earning a glorious name, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, David Farland, The Runelords",
          "text": "So the highman sent to the King, asking him to purchase the wool for his troops at a bargain price. \"But the highman did not know that rain in the west hills had caused a blight of wool rot on the sheep there. […]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man of rank, especially a high rank; a superior."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, P F Chisholm, A Famine of Horses",
          "text": "\"He had a couple of bales of crooked dice, a highman and a lowman and one with a bristle on the pip, but he hasn't the way of using them properly yet. […]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A loaded die that yields high numbers."
      ],
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          "loaded",
          "loaded"
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          "die",
          "die"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, obsolete) A loaded die that yields high numbers."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "highman"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "high",
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      },
      "expansion": "high + man",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English heimon, equivalent to high + man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "highmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "highman (plural highmen)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, The New sporting magazine, page 88",
          "text": "If not riding for life, that he is riding for immortality; and as the hero may perchance feel (for even a highman may feel like a hero), when he willingly throws away his existence in the hope of earning a glorious name, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, David Farland, The Runelords",
          "text": "So the highman sent to the King, asking him to purchase the wool for his troops at a bargain price. \"But the highman did not know that rain in the west hills had caused a blight of wool rot on the sheep there. […]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man of rank, especially a high rank; a superior."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, P F Chisholm, A Famine of Horses",
          "text": "\"He had a couple of bales of crooked dice, a highman and a lowman and one with a bristle on the pip, but he hasn't the way of using them properly yet. […]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A loaded die that yields high numbers."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "loaded"
        ],
        [
          "die",
          "die"
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        "(slang, obsolete) A loaded die that yields high numbers."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "slang"
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    }
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  "word": "highman"
}