"crossbowsman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From crossbow + -s- + -man.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1898 July, C. J. Willdey, “The Constable Nun’Alvares”, in The Scottish Review, volume XXXII, Paisley, London: Alexander Gardner, […], page 46",
          "text": "Nuno had two thousand lances and crossbows on horseback, and five hundred infantry and foot crossbowsmen, and on the northern frontier the king had twice as many.",
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          "ref": "1925, David Graham, Common-Sense and the Muses, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 72",
          "text": "The palace, fenced with portcullises and spikes of iron, was guarded by archers and crossbowsmen, who shot at any that approached by night.",
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          "ref": "1925 May, Melville Chater, “Through the Back Doors of Belgium: Artist and Author Paddle for Three Weeks Along 200 Miles of Low-Countries Canals in a Canadian Canoe”, in The National Geographic Magazine, page 518, column 2",
          "text": "Then we were invited inside, and found ourselves at a competitive shoot in the guild house of St. Joris, patron saint of kruisboogschutters, i. e., crossbowsmen.",
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          "ref": "1975, Ronald C. Adams, Alfred N. Daniel, Lee Rullman, Games, Sports, and Exercises for the Physically Handicapped, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea & Febiger, page 178, column 2",
          "text": "When shooting, the crossbowsman holds the stock like a rifle.",
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          "ref": "1980, “Military History”, in Robert E. Horn, Anne Cleaves, editors, The Guide to Simulations/Games for Education and Training, 4th edition, Beverly Hills, Calif., London: SAGE Publications, published 1983, part II (Academic Listings), page 501, column 1",
          "text": "The counters represent appropriate kinds of arms for the time and change during the game to reflect the development of new arms (crossbowsmen are replaced by arquebusiers, for example).",
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          "ref": "1985, Robert Muchembled, translated by Lydia Cochrane, Popular Culture and Elite Culture in France, 1400–1750, Baton Rouge, La., London: Louisiana State University Press, page 115",
          "text": "There were fraternities of archers, crossbowsmen, and, somewhat later, cannoneers and joueurs de trait à poudre (firearmsmen), all of which had statutes and held annual contests of skill at which the winner was given the title of roi or empereur.",
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          "ref": "1997, J[ulie] V[ictoria] Jones, The Barbed Coil, Warner Books, page 83",
          "text": "Camron’s crossbowsmen would shoot him the instant he left Marcel’s house, and even if by some miracle they missed, the whole city would be after him by dark.",
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          "ref": "2006, Graham McNeill, The Empire, Games Workshop, page 84",
          "text": "Averland Crossbowsman",
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  "word": "crossbowsman"
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