Word Finder - yeoman

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An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a Yeoman of the Guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).

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A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.

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A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.

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A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.

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A Yeoman Warder.

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A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.

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In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.

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A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.

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A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.

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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.

He is the ideal yeoman as Arthur is the ideal knight.

Abraham Bright was a Wiltshire yeoman, who, early in the 18th century, removed to Coventry, where his descendants remained, and where, in 1775, Jacob Bright was born.

He was the son of a yeoman, who rented a farm " of three or four pounds by year at the uttermost."

It performed yeoman service in getting the 9/11 oral histories released.

David somehow secured the favour of Henry VII., to whom he seems to have been yeoman of the guard.

Wealthy yeoman would be expected to also be trained and armed with a sword, dagger and the longbow.

One is of the yeoman 's son of a Saxon village Thane, as was Michael 's Robin.

The yeoman class had sunk into semi-serfdom.

It was long the residence of John Peel, yeoman, whose hunting proclivity was well known throughout the whole north country.

May 1757 Langley Edwards Was appointed surveyor together with Thomas Yeoman.

The Tower of London have some special late night entrances with private tours with the yeoman warders.

Eliot's father, a prosperous yeoman (then living at Nazeing, Essex ), was able to provide him with adequate support.

Clearly no ill-fed foot soldier but an English yeoman whose Godly ways have been rewarded with earthly riches.

No, there's much simpler fare on this stout yeoman 's mind - " Girlfriends... without the five year plan!

M (Charter) Wed; gr 28 Jun 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king's yeoman.

In 1963 she moved into Grange House at Warley, a 17th century yeoman clothier's house.

M (Charter) Thurs; gr 20 Apr 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king's yeoman.

You should see the work of Ruth Amiram, who did an incredible, yeoman 's job in classifying the pottery of Israel.

Eliot 's father, a prosperous yeoman (then living at Nazeing, Essex), was able to provide him with adequate support.

Our subject 's father was a yeoman farmer who rented land on which he kept upwards of a hundred sheep.

My seeking has not found any evidence of recusant yeoman family records earlier than about 1600.

Shortly thereafter, we met up with Tony Robinson, a Keble alumnus who did yeoman work in setting up the dinner.

On his father's side, business and scholarship had been grafted upon a solid yeoman stock of Norfolk.

The center was a yeoman 's house, erected by one Skelton.

But no matter how hard the yeoman 's wife or daughter might work, certain tasks were considered inappropriate for their station.

M (Charter) Thurs; gr 20 Apr 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king 's yeoman.

But the triumph of the navy in 480 and the great expansion of commerce and industry had definitely shifted the political centre of gravity from the yeoman class of moderate democrats to the more radical party usually stigmatized as the " sailor rabble."

After 1615, the date of the pageant prepared for the mayoralty of Sir John Jolles, draper, by Anthony Munday and entitled Metropolis Coronata, a peer was imported into it, and the yeoman of the older version was metamorphosed into the earl of Huntingdon, for whom in the following century William Stukeley discovered a satisfactory pedigree!

When on the eve of St John's Day, 1510, the king in the habit of a yeoman of his own guard saw the famous march of the city watch, he was so delighted that on the following St Peter's Eve he again attended in Cheapside to see the march, but this time he was accompanied by the queen and the principal nobility.

His father, William George, a Welshman of yeoman stock, had left Pembrokeshire for London at an early age and became a school teacher there, and afterwards in Liverpool and Haverfordwest, and then headmaster of an elementary school at Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, where he married the daughter of David Lloyd, a neighbouring Baptist minister.

In 1833 the government of Earl Grey conferred upon him the office known as yeoman usher of the exchequer, to which were attached apartments in Palace Yard, where he died on the 7th of April 1836.

His parents belonged to the yeoman class, and there is some obscurity about Fox's early career.

His father, Peter Jefferson (1707-1757), of early Virginian yeoman stock, was a civil engineer and a man of remarkable energy, who became a justice of the peace, a county surveyor and a burgess, served the Crown in,' inter-colonial boundary surveys, and married into one of the most prominent colonial families, the Randolphs.

His father, an Albanian, was an aga, a small yeoman farmer, and he himself lived in his native town for many years as a petty official and trader in tobacco.

Thus, amongst agricultural castes, those engaged in vegetable-growing or market-gardening are inferior to the genuine peasant or yeoman, such as the Jat and Rajput; whilst of these the Jat who practises widow-marriage ranks below the Rajput who prides himself on his tradition of ceremonial orthodoxy - though racially there seems little, if any, difference between the two; and the Rajput, again, is looked down upon by the Babhan of Behar because he does not, like himself, scruple to handle the plough, instead of invariably employing low-caste men for this manual labour.

It now appears that she came of a Lithuanian stock, and was one of the four children of a small Catholic yeoman, Samuel Skovronsky; but her father died of the plague while she was still a babe, the family scattered, and little Martha was adopted by Pastor Gliick, the Protestant superintendent of the Marienburg district.

Equestrian seals of barons and knights; the seals of ladies of rank; the armorial seals of the gentry; and the endless examples, chiefly of private seals, with devices of all kinds, sacred and profane, ranging from the finely engraved work of art down to the roughly cut merchant's mark of the trader and the simple initial letfer of the yeoman, typical of the time when everybody had his seal.

Capture Holkar and Sindhia in central India, preserved a loyal or at least an interested friendship. The Sikhs showed their appreciation of Lawrence's admirable administration by keeping faith with their recent conquerors, and the Gurkhas of Nepal did yeoman service for their fathers' enemies.

No, there 's much simpler fare on this stout yeoman 's mind - Girlfriends... without the five year plan !