billman

See also: Billman

English

Etymology

From bill +‎ -man.

Noun

billman (plural billmen)

1. A man who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked axe.
   • 1859, John Harland, The Lancashire Lieutenancy Under the Tudors and Stuarts […] :

     each class had its peculiar head - covering , - a steel cap or scull distinguished the archer ; a salade the billman ; while the musketeer wore a morion […]

   • 2014, Toby Clements, Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims: (Book 1):

     He is staggering as the other billmen lash their pikes at him.

References

• “billman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.