However, at most gates they would employ a pikeman to collect the tolls and would allow for this cost in their bid for the lease. |
I asked what he meant, telling him that the pikeman owed me at least a shilling. |
When properly supported by other arms, they proved themselves capable of meeting both the man-at-arms and the pikeman. |
Now the pikeman and Mill-turner came up and were exceedingly glad to find their dinners safe. |
So Peppercorn and the pikeman fought, and before very long the first son-in-law of the king was slain. |
Landsknecht, plural Landsknechte or Landsknechts, German mercenary pikeman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. |