longbowsman

plural longbowsmen

1. alternativeAlternative form of longbowman.

   I would like you to be my special troop of longbowsmen.

   1992, Eugene Pawczuk, Robin Hood, Dunkin Hayes Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, page 30

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   This was put to rout in great part through the deadly toll that the English longbowsmen took, and partly through the inexperience of the Flemish artisans who, not trusted overmuch by the Bastard, had been placed in the front of his lines.

   1959, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, page 348

   They fire arrowheads that can cut through steel, and for every arrow loosed by a crossbowsman, a longbowsman can loose two.

   1997, J[ulie] V[ictoria] Jones, The Barbed Coil, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 177

   Temporalil has the largest army of longbowsmen in the world.

   2013, Andrea Cunningham, Almost Night, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 16