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单词 pikeman
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pikemann.1

Brit. /ˈpʌɪkmən/, U.S. /ˈpaɪkmən/
Inflections: Plural pikemen.
Forms:

α. Middle English pykeman, 1500s (Scottish)– pikeman.

β. 1800s pikesman.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pike n.1, man n.1
Etymology: In α. forms < pike n.1 + man n.1 In β. forms < the genitive of pike n.1 + man n.1 With senses 2 and 3 compare earlier pickman n.1Earliest attested as a surname.
1. Perhaps: a maker or seller of pickaxes. Obsolete.
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1259 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1976) 272 Ralph Pykeman.
2. Scottish. A person responsible for picking and maintaining millstones; a miller's assistant; = pickieman n. Hence also: a tenant or person in charge of a thirlage, baronial, or burghal mill. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > miller
millwardeOE
millerOE
meal-maker1274
windmillward1314
dusty-poll?1518
mill-yemer1530
water miller1533
windmiller1533
pikeman1551
milleress1680
corn-grinder1841
1551 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. II. f. 118, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pikeman Pikeman of the said myln.
1576 in D. Littlejohn Rec. Sheriff Court Aberdeenshire (1904) I. 242 Alex. Williamsone..pikeman of the Miln..and uptaker of the multur and knaifschipe of the tounes and lands of the Miltoun of Auchnagat.
a1600 MS Rec. Aberdeen in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 489/1 Pikeman of the townis millis.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Pikman, Pikeman, Pikieman, the same as Pickie-man, and pron. as three syllables.
1877 G. Fraser Wigtown 60 The Clerk..and Jamie the Pikeman [had] a mutual dislike and dread of each other.
3. A person who wields a pickaxe; esp. one who hews the coal in a mine; = pickman n.1 Now chiefly historical.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun]
minerc1390
digger1531
pioneer1552
mineman1579
groover1610
berman1677
Vulcana1680
pitman1709
pikeman1744
Geordie1861
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with tools > with pick
pickman1571
beele-man1671
pikeman1744
picker1883
1744 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Pike The Condition of the Pike-men, who dig in the Mine.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. vi. 213 ‘My missus told it me at the pit-head when she brought me my breakfast’, said a pikeman.
1880 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. The pikeman's recumbent position and the easy strokes he appears to take at the coal.
1912 Times 19 July 15/2 A pikeman employed on piecework on thick coal is given a minimum of 5s.
1982 Econ. Hist. Rev. 35 59 The work of the pikeman..was both exhausting and dangerous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pikemann.2

Brit. /ˈpʌɪkmən/, U.S. /ˈpaɪkmən/
Inflections: Plural pikemen.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pike n.4, man n.1
Etymology: < pike n.4 + man n.1 Compare slightly earlier pickman n.2
A soldier armed with a pike; a pike-carrier.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > using pike
gildena1450
pickman1547
pike1557
pikeman1566
piker1590
piquier1596
morris-pike1599
peakman1668
rapparee1690
pikanier1816
wattle-boy1832
1566 J. Partridge Worthie Hystorie Plasidas 993 The pike-men, they on walles doe stande their towne for to defende.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 17 He ought..being a pikeman, to tertiar or charge his pike.
1682 London Mercury 28 Oct.–1 Nov. 1/1 Not a Musketeer without a Buff-Coat, scarce a Pikeman with out his Feather.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 298 The Pikemen had fasten'd to the tops of their pikes..printed Papers of the Protestation.
1775 J. Adams in Warren–Adams Lett. I. 54 A Project of procuring Pikes and Pike men.
1803 W. Scott Let. 27 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) I. xi. 389 Armies of Reserve, and Militia, and Pikemen, and Sharpshooters.
1885 Spectator 30 May 715/2 The Swiss pikemen at Morgarten..brought this ascendency to the ground.
1969 J. Henderson Sword Collecting v. 39 Three or four ranks of pike-men..extended their 18-foot pikes to form a wall of points.
2004 Church Times 13 Feb. 12/4 Each year, the Shaftesbury Society..finds itself surrounded with colourful ceremony, as the Lord Mayor of London arrives with his company of pikemen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pikemann.3

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pike n.7, man n.1
Etymology: < pike n.7 + man n.1
Obsolete.
The keeper of a turnpike.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road > barrier on > keeper of
turnpike-keeper1738
turnpike-man1769
pike-keeper1836
pikeman1841
1841 Knickerbocker 17 488 But the pikeman had heard the rattling of wheels, and rushed out, bare-footed, and clad only in a long shirt.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iv. 83 The cheery toot of the guard's horn, to warn some drowsy pikeman or the ostler at the next change.
1865 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 4/6 On certain roads you may travel for leagues without being interrupted by the ‘pike-man’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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