pikeman
Americannoun
plural
pikemennoun
Etymology
Origin of pikeman
Example Sentences
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Did you mean pikeman, a soldier armed with a pike?
From Time • Jul. 19, 2016
The sarissa was twenty-one feet in length, and so held by both hands as to project fifteen feet before the body of the pikeman.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
The printer murmured 'Eat,' and set a great pewter salt-cellar, carved like a Flemish pikeman, a foot high, heavily upon the cloth.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox
The day being Friday, we delayed not to eat, but straightway mounted the two nags that a sunburnt Béarn pikeman had brought to the door.
From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha
In the Imperial army the pay, exclusive of food, was nine gulden to the pikeman and six to the musketeer.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
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