Highman vs Highmen - What's the difference?
highman | highmen |
A man of rank, especially a high rank; a superior.
*1834 , The New sporting magazine - Page 88:
*2007 , David Farland, The Runelords :
(slang, obsolete) A loaded die that yields high numbers.
*2012 , P F Chisholm, A Famine of Horses :
As nouns the difference between highman and highmen
is that highman is a man of rank, especially a high rank; a superior while highmen is .highman
English
Noun
(highmen)- If not riding for life, that he is riding for immortality; and as the hero may perchance feel (for even a highman may feel like a hero), when he willingly throws away his existence in the hope of earning a glorious name, [...]
- So the highman' sent to the King, asking him to purchase the wool for his troops at a bargain price. "But the ' highman did not know that rain in the west hills had caused a blight of wool rot on the sheep there. [...]"
- "He had a couple of bales of crooked dice, a highman and a lowman and one with a bristle on the pip, but he hasn't the way of using them properly yet. [...]"