Horseman: Definition and part of speech

Horseman

  1. n. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus).
  2. n. A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.
  3. n. A mounted soldier; a cavalryman.
  4. n. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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