spearman

plural spearmen

1. One who uses a spear; a soldier or warrior who fights with a spear; a person who hunts with a spear.

   Then an old spearman will speak while they are drinking[.]

   1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 65

   3 more examples

   The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen whipcrackers.

   1844, James Selkirk, Recollections of Ceylon, page 65

   He spoke : the brawny spearman let his cheek Bulge with the unswallow'd piece, and turning stared;

   1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 79

   All around here the spearmen would hide, armed with those terrible shovel-balded spears that will kill a bullock at seventy yards.

   1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 75

plural Spearmans

1. countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation.
2. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Hansford County, Texas, United States.