Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man who lives in a hill-country; in the plural, same as hill-folk; specifically, the Covenanters.
  • noun The foreman of a dust-heap.

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  • noun A native or inhabitant of hilly or mountainous country; a tribesman who lives in the mountains.

Etymologies

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From hill +‎ man.

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Examples

  • He later teams up with a Kenzankian hillman and a priest of Mitra to hunt down one nasty, vampiric she-bitch of a sorceress who used dark magic to sap the life from the new King of Brythunia.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

  • The centerpiece of the evening was an aged hillman, stripped to the waist and bound to a wooden frame.

    "Shadow's Son" by Jon Sprunk (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu and Cindy Hannikman) Liviu 2010

  • There is still so much to do and so little time. by keith hillman

    Sunday Scribblings-Sleep 2008

  • The centerpiece of the evening was an aged hillman, stripped to the waist and bound to a wooden frame.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Cindy 2010

  • I knew what this meant, and it took me aback, for it's the ultimate honour a hillman can do to you: Yakub Beg wanted to make me his blood brother.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • My best plan, I soon discovered, was to do and say as little as possible, and act the surly, reserved hillman who walked by himself, and whom it was safest not to disturb.

    Fiancée 2010

  • A very moving piece and beautifully written by keith hillman

    Sunday Scribblings-Date 2008

  • Do they not know this even where you come from, hillman?

    Fiancée 2010

  • Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? brenda hillman | phone booth

    brenda hillman | phone booth « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

  • He later teams up with a Kenzankian hillman and a priest of Mitra to hunt down one nasty, vampiric she-bitch of a sorceress who used dark magic to sap the life from the new King of Brythunia.

    Book Review: Conan the Hunter by Sean A. Moore Reis O'Brien 2009

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