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Warrior vs Gallowglass - What's the difference?

warrior | gallowglass |

As nouns the difference between warrior and gallowglass

is that warrior is a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant while gallowglass is a mercenary warrior élite among Gaelic-Norse clans residing in the Western Isles of Scotland and Scottish Highlands from the mid 13th century to the end of the 16th century.

warrior

English

Alternative forms

* warriour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia warrior)
  • A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
  • *
    • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior ; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • (lb) A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.

    • Related terms

    * war

    Derived terms

    * bloody warrior * warriorhood

    References

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    gallowglass

    English

    (wikipedia gallowglass)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A mercenary warrior among Gaelic-Norse clans residing in the Western Isles of Scotland and Scottish Highlands from the mid 13th century to the end of the 16th century.
  • * ~1603 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:
    • The multiplying villanies of nature / Do swarm upon him--from the western isles/ Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied.