"inchman" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From inch (“unit of length”) + man (“soldier”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inchmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "inchmen"
      },
      "expansion": "inchman (plural inchmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tasmanian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ants",
          "orig": "en:Ants",
          "parents": [
            "Hymenopterans",
            "Insects",
            "Arthropods",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Beverley Farmer, A Body of Water: A Year's Notebook, page 46:",
          "text": "We sit under the eaves to eat, or on stumps in the grass (there are “inchmen” about, giant lumbering bull ants).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Richard Flanagan, Death of a River Guide, page 203:",
          "text": "They would walk many miles along Ocean Beach and they would eat the fleshy leaves of the plant they called pigface and she called dead men's fingers, would rub the bite of jack-jumpers and the inchmen with the pulpy flesh.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Harwood, The Ghost Writer, page 9:",
          "text": "Outside in the yard we had fierce orange bull ants whose bite was like a red-hot needle; and, for a season, two nests of the dreaded inchmen.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia."
      ],
      "id": "en-inchman-en-noun-aeHGmqsm",
      "links": [
        [
          "ant",
          "ant"
        ],
        [
          "Myrmecia",
          "Myrmecia#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, chiefly Tasmania) Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
          "word": "bull ant"
        },
        {
          "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
          "word": "bulldog ant"
        },
        {
          "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
          "word": "inch ant"
        },
        {
          "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
          "taxonomic": "Myrmecia pilosula",
          "word": "jack jumper"
        },
        {
          "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
          "word": "jumper ant"
        },
        {
          "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
          "word": "sergeant ant"
        },
        {
          "word": "inch-man"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "Tasmania"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "inchman"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From inch (“unit of length”) + man (“soldier”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inchmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "inchmen"
      },
      "expansion": "inchman (plural inchmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Tasmanian English",
        "en:Ants"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Beverley Farmer, A Body of Water: A Year's Notebook, page 46:",
          "text": "We sit under the eaves to eat, or on stumps in the grass (there are “inchmen” about, giant lumbering bull ants).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Richard Flanagan, Death of a River Guide, page 203:",
          "text": "They would walk many miles along Ocean Beach and they would eat the fleshy leaves of the plant they called pigface and she called dead men's fingers, would rub the bite of jack-jumpers and the inchmen with the pulpy flesh.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Harwood, The Ghost Writer, page 9:",
          "text": "Outside in the yard we had fierce orange bull ants whose bite was like a red-hot needle; and, for a season, two nests of the dreaded inchmen.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ant",
          "ant"
        ],
        [
          "Myrmecia",
          "Myrmecia#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, chiefly Tasmania) Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "Tasmania"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
      "word": "bull ant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
      "word": "bulldog ant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
      "word": "inch ant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
      "taxonomic": "Myrmecia pilosula",
      "word": "jack jumper"
    },
    {
      "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
      "word": "jumper ant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia",
      "word": "sergeant ant"
    },
    {
      "word": "inch-man"
    }
  ],
  "word": "inchman"
}