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yearmen

n. (plural of yearman English)

Usage examples of "yearmen".

Axmen and hammermen pounded their weapons against the stone floor, yearmen began chanting "

No one spoke, but some of the yearmen, including Orwin Shank's two middle sons, shifted restlessly in their saddles.

Mace Blackhail had ridden to the badlands on a stocky, fat-necked cob, one of twenty dozen other yearmen, a fosterling from another, lesser clan.

Other yearmen followed, and within seconds the entire meet party sat high on their saddles, eyes closed or cast down, paying due respect to those who were dead.

Sitting around the edge of the room on curved benches were the yearmen: the two middle Shank brothers, the Lyes, Bullhammer, Craw Bannering, Rob Ure, who was fostered from Clan Dregg, and dozens of others.

We're gonna need to bind as many yearmen as we can, as soon as we can.

Several yearmen, Drey included, began pummeling their fists against the bench.

What I mean to state here, before all clansmen and yearmen and women with due respect, is that I will pledge myself to any man who is named clan chief and follow him until I die.

Along the east wall, yearmen shifted restlessly against their benches.

Drey, who, if Raina Blackhail hadn't spoken up at the meeting before the yearmen had had chance to pledge their weapons, would have gladly laid his hammer at Mace Blackhail's feet.

Nearly all the yearmen showed small signs of sympathy, pulling on their chins, pressing their lips together, and exchanging small knowing glances.

Drey was solid, dependable, and he possessed none of the rash cockiness that took most yearmen five or more years to overcome.

All five of them were yearmen: Bullhammer, Bitty Shank, Craw Bannering, Drey, and himself.

Tem had met Meg during the year he was fostered at Ganmiddich, when that rich border clan held a summer dance for its yearmen and clan maids.

Four massive Bluddsmen in their prime, against three Hailsmen, two of them yearmen newly sworn?