Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A soldier or civic guardsman of former times armed with a bill.
  • noun A laborer who uses a bill for cutting.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A man who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked axe.

Etymologies

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bill +‎ -man

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Examples

  • The English bowman, or billman, who carried a large axe or bill, was a strong, healthy, well-fed man; and though he had not perfect freedom, according to our modern acceptation of the term, he had an existence worth struggling for, and not entirely at the command of an imperious lord.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 Various 1841

  • Guest book and obituary at fleming-billman. com and starbeacon. com.

    The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio Home Page 2010

  • On 9 / 11 / 2008 6: 01: 00 PM, Anonymous said: hey billman you forgot to mention your own stupidity writing so extensively on other people's .. why don't you take your angry self drink some coolaid and work for the obama campaign or should i say the jesus campaign

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2008

  • ` oh, how i miss the billman. also, i still blame you for all of this ...

    The Clog 2010

  • ` oh, how i miss the billman. also, i still blame you for all of this ...

    The Clog 2010

  • "Well, I'm two and thirty, and have never been in the fray: a kind of nondescript, half scholar, and by nature half billman or bowman or musketeer; if I'm worth anything, London's the field for me.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • "Well, I'm two and thirty, and have never been in the fray: a kind of nondescript, half scholar, and by nature half billman or bowman or musketeer; if I'm worth anything, London's the field for me.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

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