crossbowsman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Nuno had two thousand lances and crossbows on horseback, and five hundred infantry and foot crossbowsmen, and on the northern frontier the king had twice as many."
- "The palace, fenced with portcullises and spikes of iron, was guarded by archers and crossbowsmen, who shot at any that approached by night."
- "Then we were invited inside, and found ourselves at a competitive shoot in the guild house of St. Joris, patron saint of kruisboogschutters, i. e., crossbowsmen."
- "When shooting, the crossbowsman holds the stock like a rifle."
- "The counters represent appropriate kinds of arms for the time and change during the game to reflect the development of new arms (crossbowsmen are replaced by arquebusiers, for example)."
- "There were fraternities of archers, crossbowsmen, and, somewhat later, cannoneers and joueurs de trait à poudre (firearmsmen), all of which had statutes and held annual contests of skill at which the winner was given the title of roi or empereur."