Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who lives in fens or marshes.
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Examples
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At the first bout they strove with steel, and were ill-matched at that, for the heavy strength of the fenman was futile against the lithe speed of the hunter.
The Path of the King John Buchan 1907
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The watch-fire lights, that were our guide, twinkled above us through the trees that were on the hillside; and we made at once for them, sending on the fenman to spy out the post before we were near it.
King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884
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Once the brave fenman led them to where they dared not move till daylight came, while the blue fen lights flitted round them like ghosts in the dark; and then the fen people swarmed round them, and ended them with arrows and sling stones from a distance.
King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884
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Othery island, and there found a fenman to guide us, and so went to the foot of Edington hill just as darkness fell.
King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884
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AN avaricious fenman, who kept a very scanty table, dining one Saturday with his son at an ordinary in Cambridge, whispered in his ear, "Tom, you must eat for to-day and to-morrow."
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Mark Lemon 1839
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"Both areas have different needs," another local observed, while a Downham Market pensioner protested that he was "a Norfolk boy" rather than a fenman.
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a fenman from Sedgemoor, who knew all the paths through the wastes.
King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884
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