"highman" meaning in English

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          "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, […]",
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          "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. […]\"",
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        "A man of rank, especially a high rank; a superior."
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          "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. […]\"",
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        "A loaded die that yields high numbers."
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        "(slang, obsolete) A loaded die that yields high numbers."
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