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单词 crossbowman
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crossbowmann.

Brit. /ˈkrɒsbəʊmən/, /ˈkrɔːsbəʊmən/, U.S. /ˈkrɔsˌboʊmən/, /ˈkrɑsˌboʊmən/
An archer with a crossbow; a soldier armed with a crossbow.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > crossbowman
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c1500 Melusine (1895) 132 A thousand men of armes, & C cros~bowe men.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 11 He armed her with twise as many crossebow-men as souldiers.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. v. 9 Thirty-two were cross-bow-men.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. iii. iii. 438 The artillery, the arquebusiers, and crossbow-men, were to support one another.
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