Definition of militiaman
:a member of a militia
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Have any of the heavily armed militiamen harmed anyone with their weapons?
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Witnesses say militiamen in Libya abducted Zidan, a former prime minister, in the capital, Tripoli late on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2107.
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The towns include Tal Afar, about 40 miles west of Mosul, where Iraqi troops and militiamen have been gathering ahead of what is expected to be the next major offensive in the campaign against the Islamic State.
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After skirmishing with convalescing soldiers and local militiamen around the Miamiville train bridge, Morgan withdrew.
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First, militiamen began threatening to haul them off.
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Soldiers and militiamen immediately started murdering Tutsis and unco-operative Hutus.
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Six years before colonists dumped tea in Boston Harbor to protest British tariffs, the royalist governor of North Carolina, William Tryon, tried to appease local militiamen by roasting a whole ox.
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These armed militiamen can be seen everywhere in the video, wandering the streets, chatting on street corners -- never far from the civilian population.
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First Known Use of militiaman
1668
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