warman

See also: Warman

English

Etymology

From war +‎ -man.

Noun

warman (plural warmen)

  1. (archaic, rare) A warrior.
    • 1876, Grammar of the Fulde Language‎[1], Church Missionary House, page 297:
      The warmen went to the other side of the brook Kubi; they stopped there to deliberate.
    • 1881, Bayard Taylor, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 147:
      Our entrance was attended with the usual ceremony, now familiar to the reader: the warmen danced, shot, and shouted, a rabble of adults, youths and boys crowded upon us, the fair sex lulliloo'd with vigor[.]
    • 1989, Richard La Plante, Tegné: Soul Warrior‎[2], Tor, →ISBN, page 13:
      The Yusun Clan either fled or surrendered in the face of these huge-boned, bronzed, godlike Warmen.
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