truceman

English

Noun

truceman (plural trucemen)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of truchman
   • 1589, Robert Greene, Menaphon’s Eclogue in Menaphon, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814, p. 63,^[1]

     Seld speaketh Love, but sighs his secret pains;

     Tears are his trucemen, words do make him tremble:

     How sweet is love to them that can dissemble,

     In thoughts and looks, till they have reap’d the gains!

   • 1593, Michael Drayton, The Legend of Piers Gaveston, cited in J. Payne Collier (editor), Illustrations of Early English Poetry, Volume 4, 1870, p. 163,[2]

     O Hope! how cunning with our cares to gloze

     Griefes breathing poynt, the truceman to desire,

     The rest in sighes, the very thoughts repose;

     As thou art milde, oh! wert thou not a lier?

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