Crossword clues for marksmen
marksmen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marksman \Marks"man\, n.; pl. Marksmen. [Earlier markman; mark + man.]
One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well. especially with a pistol or rifle.
(Law) One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents.
--Burrill.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of marksman English)
Usage examples of "marksmen".
Valdis' marksmen were the best in the Known Lands, and when they brought a horse down rather than its rider it was with intent.
Ten knights, four of them marksmen, three hostages, thirteen horses, two mules, and enough supplies to provision a journey to Bren.
With four trained marksmen in the party, Skaythe had no intention of giving away his presence.
Andris, who seemed to be second-in-command, had been a circle below him at Valdis, and Borlin, who was one of the four marksmen and the oldest knight in the group, had first taught him how to use a bow.
Follis and the two Highwall marksmen were doing a little preraid thinning.
A company of blackhelms challenged them at the gate, but Valdis' marksmen picked off a few of their numbers and their enthusiasm quickly waned.
A flash of yellow-and-black high up on a roof caught Melli's eye: Valdis' marksmen were leaving nothing to chance.
PeihamMartin was a very large man, a big enough target for some French marksmen without drawing attention to himself by showing his proper uniform.
Each hatch was guarded by a marine, and aloft in the tops the marksmen and swivel gunners licked their lips and screwed up their eyes as they sought out their opposite numbers across the shortening range.
Even as he watched the main royal stay parted with the sound of a pistol shot, and when men swarmed aloft to splice another in its place others were falling, dead or wounded, on to the nets below as the hidden French marksmen kept up a murderous fire across the smoke.
Abdiel was being pounded by several guns at once, the hidden marksmen unhampered by movement or range as they fired again and again at the ship which must be lying below and right across their sights.
The swivel gun banged again and he heard Gascoigne yelling and cheering as the canister ripped away the wooden barricade around the enemy's foretop and blasted the marksmen down like birds from a branch.
Twenty people inside the plant, with marksmen stationed on roofs and at certain key windows.
They would block the exit, then watch from safety while Claverhouse, at a firstfloor window with his megaphone, and the marksmen (roof.
And the marksmen were running from the building, lit up like a firing-range.