"crossbow-woman" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "crossbowwoman"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896 October 1, Martin A. S. Hume, “Philip II. in His Domestic Relations”, in The Fortnightly Review, number CCCLVIII, page 546",
          "text": "“O!” he says, “you must be grand crossbow-women, both of you, to kill so many bucks and rabbits as you say.[…]”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History, London: Victor Gollancz, page 509",
          "text": "loria and Richard Faversham knelt in a protective cordon of billmen, a thrashing yelling body between them – the crossbow-woman, Ludmilla Rostovnaya – rolling bloody on the cobbles; Fiona’s surgeon's box open, bandages welling red with blood.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice, Bantam Press, page 405",
          "text": "Gruntle jogged towards the troop of Grey Swords. Seeing no obvious officer, he elected the crossbow-woman nearest him. ‘What’s the situation here, soldier?’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis, Roc Books, page 241",
          "text": "A lot of the crossbowmen were actually crossbow-women.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt), Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, page 76",
          "text": "You ever see a Spider-kinden crossbow-woman?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative form of crossbowwoman."
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  "word": "crossbow-woman"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "crossbowwoman"
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        {
          "ref": "1896 October 1, Martin A. S. Hume, “Philip II. in His Domestic Relations”, in The Fortnightly Review, number CCCLVIII, page 546",
          "text": "“O!” he says, “you must be grand crossbow-women, both of you, to kill so many bucks and rabbits as you say.[…]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History, London: Victor Gollancz, page 509",
          "text": "loria and Richard Faversham knelt in a protective cordon of billmen, a thrashing yelling body between them – the crossbow-woman, Ludmilla Rostovnaya – rolling bloody on the cobbles; Fiona’s surgeon's box open, bandages welling red with blood.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice, Bantam Press, page 405",
          "text": "Gruntle jogged towards the troop of Grey Swords. Seeing no obvious officer, he elected the crossbow-woman nearest him. ‘What’s the situation here, soldier?’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis, Roc Books, page 241",
          "text": "A lot of the crossbowmen were actually crossbow-women.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt), Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, page 76",
          "text": "You ever see a Spider-kinden crossbow-woman?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of crossbowwoman."
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