light-horseman

light-horseman

English

Etymology

light +‎ horseman

Australian light-horseman

Pronunciation

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Noun

light-horseman (plural light-horsemen)

1. A soldier who serves in the light cavalry.
2. (US, obsolete) A West Indian fish, Chaetodipterus faber, with a high dorsal fin and brilliant colours.
3. (Australia, obsolete) A snapper, Pagrus auratus, whose skull is shaped in the front like a cap worn by light-horsemen.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for light-horseman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)