Crossword clues for horseman
horseman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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(Zo["o]l.)
A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.
A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman ( Eques lanceolatus).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 coast of Brazil and the West Indies. 6 A West Indian fish of the genus (taxlink Eques genus noshow=1), such as the light-horseman ((taxlink Eques lanceolatus species noshow=1)).
WordNet
n. a man skilled in equitation [syn: equestrian, horseback rider]
a person who breeds and cares for horses [syn: horse fancier]
Wikipedia
Horseman may refer to:
- Horse rider; see Equestrianism
- Wrangler (profession), in the United States
- Stockman (Australia), who works with horses rather than with cattle or sheep
- Centaur, a mythical creature that is part horse, part man
- Horseman, Wisconsin, unincorporated community
- The Horseman (opera) (Finnish: Ratsumies), a 1975 Finnish opera by Aulis Sallinen
- Elaine Horseman (1925–1999), British author
- BoJack Horseman, an animated sitcom.
- Mark of medium and large format cameras of Komamura Corporation
Konjanik is a 2003 Croatian film directed by Branko Ivanda. It is based on the works of Ivan Aralica.
The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between the regions of Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroads of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam. The film's main character Petar Revač, was played by Nikša Kušelj.
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.