| 单词 | footman archer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfootman archer footman archer n. now historical a foot soldier who is also an archer; an archer who fights on foot. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > archer > type of footman archer1511 solak1520 franc-archer1568 argoletc1580 longbowman1738 hobbler-archer1786 1511 H. Watson tr. Noble Hist. King Ponthus (new ed.) sig. N.vi There wente forth mo than .xii. thousande on horsbacke with out fote men archers & arbelasters [Fr. sans les arbalestriers et gens de pied]. c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. 65 According to covenante came Fitz Stevens withe thirtie knightes of his bloude, sixtie squyers, and 300 fotemen archers. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiii. ix. 192 In the wings went the footemen archers [L. pedes sagittarius] with the residue of the horsemen. 1907 Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 67 John de Derle..led 40 footmen archers. 2003 J. T. Rosenthal Telling Tales i. 1 The footmen-archers..made English armies so successful in the great set pieces of fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century warfare. < as lemmas |
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