fenman

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English

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Etymology

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From fen +‎ -man.

Noun

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fenman (plural fenmen)

  1. A (male) inhabitant of the fens.
    • 1987, Anthony Fletcher, Order and Disorder in Early Modern England, page 167:
      But Lilburne's presence has been equally problematic for those historians who have examined the activities and attitudes of the fenmen whom Lilburne, and his Leveller colleague, John Wildman, temporarily led.

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