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A man skilled in equitation
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horseman
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Word definitions for horseman in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from horse (n.) + man (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A man who rides a horse. 2 A soldier on horseback. 3 A man skilled in horsemanship. 4 (context UK agriculture obsolete English) A man in charge of work horses. 5 A swift-running land crab of the genus (taxlink Ocypoda genus noshow=1), living on the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Caledor called for brave young horsemen to bear his messages and ride the troubled land. ▪ Down Agamemnon Street, leaping motor cars and fleeing rioters came a hoard of Afghani horsemen. ▪ The horseman was watching me, he switched ...
Usage examples of horseman.
The Yeomanry, the Scottish Horse, and the Constabulary poured a steady fire upon the advancing wave of horsemen, and the guns opened with case at two hundred yards.
As he sate thus, with his dark eye turned towards the scowling and blackening heaven, a horseman rode rapidly up to him, and stopping, as if to let his horse breathe for an instant, made a sort of obeisance to the anchoret, with an air betwixt effrontery and embarrassment.
He was a natural horseman and an excellent shot with bow, arbalest and rifle, and often went off by himself for days at a time, hunting in the high ranges of hills where the Breas ran white and fast through the locks and ponds of the old canal system.
Old Derreck, their gardener and horseman, said to Ava as he pushed a thick hand through a shock of gray hair.
The sound of a horseman riding in haste to the gate of the Bailliage echoed through the hall.
And now there was something moving behind the giant horseman and his bedamned stallion.
At this, the crossbowmen released their heavy bolts, and when a horseman was hit by one, whether he wore a captured byrnie or not, he fell dead or terribly wounded.
About an hour before sunset, on the very same day that Issachar, the son of Selim, had taken more than one Cabala, some horsemen, in disorder, were observed from the walls by the inhabitants of Aleppo, galloping over the plain.
By the time he mounted again and rode another half mile or so, he was certain that a good-sized group of horsemen had ridden through this coulee several times recently.
They rode in careful formation, armed horsemen before and behind her, Dacre at her side.
Knowingly or not, the Federation served the Shadowen causea tool for Rimmer Dall and others in the Coalition Council hierarchyand it was safe to assume that the soldiers in the Kennon had something to do with the Four Horsemen.
Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like fine earth newly swept by rain.
Abdallah was renowned as the boldest and most dexterous horseman of Arabia.
Through the oncoming pound of his mounted pursuit, he added, Are you here to help doubleblind witches or horsemen?
There were some of the people from the summer pictures, but there were also dromes and the headless horseman and the Bumble-Bee women.