| yeoman | Origin: OE. Yoman, yeman, yoman; of uncertain origin; perhaps the first, syllable is akin to OFries. Ga district, region, G. Gau, OHG. Gewi, gouwi, Goth. Gawi. 1. A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born. A yeoman in England is considered as next in order to the gentry. The word is little used in the United States, unless as a title in law proceedings and instruments, designating occupation, and this only in particular States. 2. A servant; a retainer. "A yeman hadde he and servants no mo." (Chaucer) 3. A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. 4. An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| yeomanlike | Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeomanly | Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike. "Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly." (Chaucer) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeomanry | 1. The position or rank of a yeoman. "His estate of yeomanry." 2. The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. "The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion." (Bancroft) 3. The yeomanry cavalry. Yeomanry cavalry, certain bodies of volunteer cavalry liable to service in Great Britain only. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeoman | in former times was free and cultivated his own land |
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| yeoman | officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch |
| yeoman | officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch |
| yeoman | a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army |
| yeoman | class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land |
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