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shieldman
n. someone who carries a shield
Usage examples of "shieldman".
In a dozen major battles through Libiannin, Hellin Daimiel, Cardine, and the Lesser Kingdoms, countless fanatics had ridden into those cloth-yard swarms, through six hundred yards of death, and few had survived to hurl themselves upon the masking shieldmen.
Without armor Drakaina and I hung back, but the shieldmen held their big hoplons over their heads and advanced.