longbowsman

English

Etymology

From longbow +‎ -s- +‎ -man.

Noun

longbowsman (plural longbowsmen)

1. Alternative form of longbowman.
   • 1959, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, page 348:

     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.

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

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

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

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

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

     Temporalil has the largest army of longbowsmen in the world.