Yeoman
From Fresh Dictionary
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English
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Noun
Yeoman (plural yeomen{{#if:| or [[{{{2}}}]]}})
- An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household
- A third in order of the feudal servant fighting class below knight, squire and above a page. A yeoman archer is typically a mounted archer but who fights on foot, sometimes called a man-at-arms.
- A subordinate, deputy, aide, assistant (as in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Knight's Prologue) and the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod (deputy Black Rod) he is the equivalent of the deputy sergeant-at-arms in the House of Commons.
- A Yeoman Warder.
- A clerk in the US navy.
- A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
- A member of the Imperial Yeomanry officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
- (British) A former class small freeholders who farm their own land.
- (nautical{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
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Related terms
- yeomen of the guard
- yeoman warder of the tower of london or beefeater
- yeomen of the crown
- yeomen of the chamber
- king's yeoman
- queen's yeoman
- yeoman archer
- yeomanry cavalry
- yeoman usher of the black rod
- yeoman of the king's pantry
- yeoman of the king's buttery
- yeoman of the horse or carriage
- yeoman of the stores
- navigator's yeoman
- traveling yeoman
- chief yeoman of the signals