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cavalryman

noun cav·al·ry·man \-rē-mən, -ˌman\

: a soldier who is in the cavalry

Full Definition of CAVALRYMAN

:  a cavalry soldier
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First Known Use of CAVALRYMAN

1860

Rhymes with CAVALRYMAN

Afghanistan, angry young man, arrière-ban, attention span, Baluchistan, bipartisan, catamaran, catch-as-catch-can, committeeman, deliveryman, dirty old man, Kalimantan, medicine man, newspaperman, orangutan, radioman, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, watering can

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