Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A warrior.
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Examples
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So I gave him an hundred purses and despatched him to thee, in the habit of a merchant, whereas he is a captain and a war-man; and when they led thee to thy death after slaying the forty captives, I also sent thee this old woman to save thee from slaughter.
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The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed, he was a man.
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All the youths seized their weapons; the huge war-drums, the hollowed bole of a tree fringed with Nyáre hide, was set up in the middle of the street; preparations for the week of singing and dancing which precedes a campaign were already in hand, and one war-man gave earnest of blood-shed by spearing a goat the property of Mr. Tippet.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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"The sweet war-man is dead and rotten: sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed, he was a man."
William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922
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The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried; when he breathed, he was a man.
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I suppose they do forget, and read a man's stuff by their fires (ordering the kids to be quiet) ... thinking that this war-man writing from the field is a great and lucky guy.
Red Fleece Will Levington Comfort 1905
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Crawford was in the Senate from Georgia, and was a war-man.
The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870
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"The sweet war-man (Hector of Troy) is dead and rotten; sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed, he was a man!"
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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All the youths seized their weapons; the huge war-drums, the hollowed bole of a tree fringed with Nyáre hide, was set up in the middle of the street; preparations for the week of singing and dancing which precedes a campaign were already in hand, and one war-man gave earnest of blood-shed by spearing a goat the property of Mr. Tippet.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Crawford was in the Senate from Georgia, and was a war-man.
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