"spearsman" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: spearsmen [plural]
Etymology: spear + -s- + -man Etymology templates: {{compound|en|spear|-s-|-man}} spear + -s- + -man Head templates: {{en-noun|spearsmen}} spearsman (plural spearsmen)
  1. Alternative form of spearman Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: spearman
    Sense id: en-spearsman-en-noun-ogaYtZat Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms interfixed with -s-

Inflected forms

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          "text": "As when the Trojan hero came from that fair city's gates, With tossing mane and flaming crest to scorn the scowling fates, His legions gather round him and madly charge and cheer, And fill besieging armies with wild disheveled fear; Then bares his breast unto the dart the daring spearsman sends, And dying hears his cheering foes, the wailing of his friends, So Albert Sidney Johnston, the chief of belt and scar, Lay down to die at Shiloh and turned the scales of war.",
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