单词 | war-man |
释义 | war-mann. 1. a. A fighting-man, warrior, soldier. In early use chiefly Scottish; now rare.In Minot's Poems x. 9 Ritson and Hall print ‘weremen’ as an emendation of the MS. reading ‘werkmen’. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] wyec900 rinkeOE earlOE manlOE champion?c1225 warrer?c1225 drightmanc1275 here-dringc1275 here-gumec1275 here-kempec1275 wal-kempc1275 warrior1297 battlerc1300 fighterc1300 battle-wrighta1400 man-of-war1449 frekec1475 war-manc1485 combatant1489 Mars1565 warfarer1591 combater1598 Mavortian1598 brave1601 fire-eater1792 war-wolf1810 war-hound1812 war-dog1846 toa1860 Mavors1868 fightist1877 ninja1964 simba1964 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 152 And gif jnnocent folk takis scathe than jn sik opyn weris, the prince na the were men may nocht..set remede. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 256 Wallace commaundede thai suld na wermen saiff. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xiv. 151 Syne on that weyr~man ruschit he in teyn. 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes a iij b How the countrey hath been ouer runne..by our awne warremen. 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn ii. sig. D2 Back warmen, back. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 653 The sweete War-man is dead and rotten. View more context for this quotation 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 82 You will command at least twenty war-men, with bow and spear. 1841 T. J. Dibdin in C. Dibdin Songs Addenda 242 A very great war-man, called Billy the Norman. 1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 48 I detected several warmen privily borrowing from their neighbours. 1911 G. K. Chesterton Ballad White Horse 104 Meeting may be of war-men Where the best war-man wins. b. U.S. One whose voice is for war. Cf. war-dog n., war-hawk. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warmongering > warmonger war-hawk1798 war-dog1813 war-man1814 warmonger1817 levier1831 sabre-rattler1928 hot warrior1950 1814 Columbian Centinel 11 June 2/4 in A. Matthews Uncle Sam (1908) 28. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] great shipa1400 ship-of-war1479 man-of-war1484 warship1533 war-man1546 rostrum1782 U.S.S.a1912 warcraft1918 tin can1937 1546 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 123 The pryses takin be the Cristopher..to the nummer of sex weirman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1485 |
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