horseman
IPA: hˈɔrsmʌn
noun
- A man who rides a horse.
- A soldier on horseback, especially a cavalryman.
- A man skilled in horsemanship, especially an equestrian.
- (especially UK, agriculture, archaic) A man in charge of work horses; a teamster.
- (especially UK, archaic) A man in charge of transport horses; a hostler (ostler).
- (archaic) Any of the swift-running land crabs of the genus Ocypode.
- (archaic) Any fish of the genus Equetus.
- A fictional beast that is part horse and part man.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- An unincorporated community in Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Examples of "horseman" in Sentences
- And he saw with a thrill of delicious fear that the horseman was the leader of a troop.
- Then he and his men armed and he bade open the gates when, behold, up came a horseman from the host of the Indians, with Jamrkan and
- In fact, we got so mean to each other that we were riding what love researcher, Dr. John Gottman, calls a horseman of the Apocalypse.
- But the horseman is a specific reference to the symbolic figure in Revelation 6: 8, in the last book of the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
- I always remember the distinction between Cal vary and cavalry by associationg Calvin (the great Christian) with Calvary and the cavalier (which comes from the word horseman) with cavalry.
- Now the old horseman is riding his 100-1 shot, checking in at the scorer's table with a reminder that he never played the game, only coached it at an Air Force base, yet still has more pointed opinions than Allen Iverson and Larry Brown combined.
- Add to this a swarthy visage half hid in a long black beard, a tall cap of lambskin, immense trousers, boots, red or black, to the knee, a shaggy yaponcha on his shoulder, a short chibouk under the flap of his saddle, and the Persian horseman is complete.
- We were solemnly cautioned not to make any excavations in the turf, especially ditches around the tents to carry off the rain, or even holes in the ground in which to build our cooking fires, as the land is hunted over, and any stray holes in the ground might break a horseman's collar bone or a horse's leg.
- I was told it was a point of honour among the Circassians and these rough soldiers that, if two parties or two single horsemen met, and were in doubt if they were friends or foes, a horseman from one side would dash out and gallop in a circle to the right, if a Circassian; on which a horseman from the other party would immediately imitate this evolution, but galloping to the left, if a Cossack, to show he was a foe.
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