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cavalryman
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Word definitions for cavalryman in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A soldier in the cavalry.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cavalryman \Cav"al*ry*man\, n.; pl. Cavalrymen . One of a body of cavalry.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soldier in a motorized army unit [syn: trooper ] a soldier mounted on horseback; "a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount" [syn: trooper ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A Dragoon sergeant hauled the body aside as more cavalrymen poured across the bridge. ▪ Ellyrian cavalrymen mustered beside the elite White Lions of Chrace. ▪ For example, a Knight of the White Wolf is a cavalryman wearing heavy ...
Usage examples of cavalryman.
They are Maratha cavalrymen who escaped from Andhra after the Malwa conquest and have been reconstituted as my regular army under properly appointed officers!
His great-grandfather had probably worn that same expression just before he drew his saber and charged some luckless damnyankee cavalryman.
Kushans and Maratha cavalrymen, in the main, who cheerfully accepted the berating abuse of the Keralan ship captains.
At times the Mughal emperor in Agra had more cavalrymen under arms than the entire population of some European principalities.
At least Sharpe assumed he was the naique, just as the naique assumed that the mounted soldier was the leader of the newly arrived cavalrymen.
It begins at dawn when Jordan, from his sleeping robe, kills the Navarrese cavalryman and the band prepares for a possible assault.
Mount Pantocrator, two bored mercenary cavalrymen were preparing a late dinner of a skinny fowl that some peasant was going to be very upset about in the morning.
The evening air sounded as if it were ripping as archers rained down a hail of arrows on cavalrymen struggling to escape the carnage.
In a barracks located on 1 sth Street, south of the Treasury grounds, were the barracks of the Union Light Guard, which company furnished the cavalrymen at the north gates.
Sharpe ignored him and, followed by Ahmed and the cavalryman, went back into the sunlight.
He was a cavalryman, but he had picketed his horse a few yards away and had crept up on Ahmed on foot.
Which should have been, thought Foster, more than enough to subdue an impoverished pocket principalityfive hundred cavalrymen, three thousand infantry and arquebusiers or crossbowmen, eight large bombards, and probably three or four times that number of smaller cannon, plus the inevitable catapults and spear throwers.
A few dogs barked as the invading cavalrymen captured the first Dutch villages unopposed.
A Dragoon sergeant hauled the body aside as more cavalrymen poured across the bridge.
There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track.