hillmann.
1. Also hillsman.
a. One who frequents the hills; spec. applied to the Scottish Covenanters (cf. Cameronian adj. and n. and hill-folk n.).
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society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [noun] > Scottish Presbyterian > one adhering to
covenanter1638
covenanteer1660
gospel-ladc1679
hillman1829
1829 J. Train in W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Waverley Novels IX. 230 The religious sect called Hill-men, or Cameronians.
b. An inhabitant of a hill-country, a mountaineer: applied to the hill-tribes of India, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on high land
Highlandman1450
overlander1548
mountainer1577
mountaineer1599
highlander1614
mountainist1625
uplander1699
hillman1854
hill-woman1895
hillsider1898
tiersman1941
Montagnard1966
1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. v. 136 Carriers and mountaineers... If they serve a good hills-man like themselves, they will follow him with alacrity, sleep on the cold, bleak mountain.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 6 A sort of sedan-chair carried by four hill men.
1893 Archæol. LIV. 269 The pinch of poverty often drove the bravest of the hillmen to raid the cattle of the lowlands.
1897 Daily News 27 Nov. 5/7 The hillmen offered a stubborn resistance to the advance along its whole length.
1920 London Mag. Apr. 187/2 This rain would hold. He knew it with a hillsman's knowledge.
1938 V. McNabb Life of Our Lord iii. 42 The hillsman from Galilee..had to pass through the country of Samaria.
2. One of the hill-folk (b); an elf or troll.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun]
elfOE
elvena1100
spiritc1350
fay1393
fairyc1405
mammeta1425
sprite?1440
lady1538
faerie1579
Robin Goodfellow1588
elfin1590
pigwidgeon1594
pygmy1611
fairess1674
peri1739
spriggan1754
fane1806
glendoveer1810
vila1827
Polong1839
Gandharva1846
elle-maid1850
sheogue1852
hillman1882
elvet1885
pishogue1906
1882 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads I. i. vii. 90/2 A supernatural being, a demon or a hillman, seeks to entice away a mortal maid.
1884 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads I. ii. xli. 366/2 The hill-man, in several Norwegian copies, carries off the lady on horseback.
3. spec.
a. (See quot. 1851).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > one who > worker in dust-yard
hillman1851
hill-woman1851
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 172/2 The labourers..paid by the foreman or forewoman of the dust-heap, commonly called hill-man or hill-woman.
b. A miner, a slate quarryman [compare German bergmann] .
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > quarrier > [noun] > specific
marler1275
marbler1478
rockmana1661
rubbler1858
hillman1865
1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole Slate Quarries 13 The cleavers, or hillmen, build rough walls as a partial protection from the inclemency of the weather.
c. A hill-climber.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > mountaineer or climber
rock climber1767
rockman1798
cragsman1816
cliffsman1829
mountaineer1860
Alpestrian1861
alpinist1861
cliffer1861
glissader1861
ascensionist1863
alpenstocker1864
shin-scraper1869
hillmana1885
second1907
Munro-bagger1910
summiteer1926
middleman1968
rock jock1980
free soloist1984
a1885 Shairp in W. Knight Life (1888) 74 Some of our party were very good hillmen. One day five or six set out on a race from our door..to the top of Fairfield.
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