marchman

See also: Marchman

English

Etymology

march +‎ -man

Noun

marchman (plural marchmen)

  1. (historical) A person living in the marches (border regions) between England and Scotland or Wales.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “marchman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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