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horsemen
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horseman \Horse"man\, n.; pl. Horsemen . A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man. (Mil.) A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. (Zo["o]l.) A land crab of the genus Ocypoda , living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, ...
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Horsemen may refer to: Equestrianism , including cavalry Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Four Horsemen (football) Royal Canadian Mounted Police Brooklyn Lions / Horsemen (1926) , a National Football League team that played in the 1926 NFL season
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n. (plural of horseman English)
Usage examples of horsemen.
The brigade had formed squares and blasted the German horsemen with volleys of musket-fire so that the cavalry milled about in confusion, men and horses dropping, until, bleeding and baulked, they were forced to retire.
The horsemen had short-barrelled muskets thrust into bucket holsters on their saddles.
The enemy horsemen were Lancers and Hussars, gaudy in green, scarlet and blue, who now spread ahead of the cannons to make their own two lines of attack.
Two of the green-coated horsemen unholstered their carbines and took aim at Sharpe, but their officer shouted at the troopers to hold their fire.
He loved to describe the unbridled gallop of the wild horsemen, impalpable as phantoms, and so terrible in their wrath that the enemy could not look them in the face.
From time to time there straggled by a single battalion, a battery, a group of horsemen — the last forces of the rear guard that had taken their position on the outskirts of the village in order to cover the retreat.
At daybreak they were awakened by bodies of horsemen exploring the ground, rounding up the remnants of the retreat.
They had allowed the French horsemen to come very close before they opened fire.
None of the horsemen tried to force a passage across the barricaded bridge.
The enemy horsemen were silhouetted on the southern skyline and Sharpe suspected they must have been trailing him ever since he had emerged from the trees.
The Dutch-Belgian horsemen, for all the Duke cared, could have packed their bags and ridden home right now.
The horsemen were green-coated Lancers with high helmets topped with forward sweeping black plumes.
The French skirmishers fled the Duke of Brunswick's sabres like mice fleeing a scourge of cats, but then the death's head horsemen came across a French infantry brigade that was concealed in the tall crops beyond the stream.
He turned to look for Rebecque, intending to order the Chief of Staff to have just such a banner made, but instead he saw that the entire first rank of his horsemen had come to an ignominious halt at the far bank of the stream.
The staff officers had dutifully begun to follow the Prince, but the Belgian horsemen had stayed obstinately still.