Spearmen

Word SPEARMEN
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Definitions and meanings of "Spearmen"

What do we mean by spearmen?

A soldier who fights with a spear

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The word "spearmen" in example sentences

He held a long lance in his hand, and his whole equipment was that of one of the German adventurers, who were known by the name of lanzknechts, in English, spearmen, who constituted a formidable part of the infantry of the period. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Behind the spearmen were a line of heavily laden mules, and on either side of them a drove of poor country folk, who were being herded into the castle. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)

Candaules then of whom I speak had become passionately in love with his own wife; and having become so, he deemed that his wife was fairer by far than all other women; and thus deeming, to Gyges the son of Daskylos (for he of all his spearmen was the most pleasing to him), to this Gyges, I say, he used to impart as well the more weighty of his affairs as also the beauty of his wife, praising it above measure: and after no long time, since it was destined that evil should happen to Candaules, he said to Gyges as follows: ❋ Herodotus (2003)

This Candaules then of whom I speak had become passionately in love with his own wife; and having become so, he deemed that his wife was fairer by far than all other women; and thus deeming, to Gyges the son of Daskylos (for he of all his spearmen was the most pleasing to him), to this Gyges, I say, he used to impart as well the more weighty of his affairs as also the beauty of his wife, praising it above measure: and after no long time, since it was destined that evil should happen to Candaules, he said to Gyges as follows: ❋ 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus (1883)

Cp. 'spearmen's twilight wood,' 'Lady of the Lake,' VI.xvii. line 1035. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Players place units such as spearmen, archers, and cannon firing artillery and manage their stoic troops as they waste a path following army.

He also appointed his Macedonian companion Anaxippus as leader of an honor guard of forty mounted spearmen to accompany the governor back to the regional capital of Chortacana modern Herat. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

In the meanwhile, Bill-Man and the three others had made a stand and were driving a leaden hail into the advancing spearmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For those of you who have never fought Kristianos, mixed weaponry means that thunder-stick shooters, crossbowmen, and pole-ax spearmen provide protection for each other, like a woven defense. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

Philotas and his cavalry units were stationed near him with the archers and wild Agrianian spearmen from Thrace. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

But the Mandell spearmen were crowding up into closer range, and a strong cast transfixed the wounded man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The army spread out and charged the enemy with infantry, archers, and Thracian spearmen. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

The spearmen skewered the Triballi at close quarters while the horsemen moved in from the sides. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

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