Thingman

Quick meaning: Thingman is a noun meaning (historical, usually in the plural) One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt.

Meaning

(historical, usually in the plural) One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt.

More Meanings

1. (historical, usually in the plural) (One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler).

Example Sentences

A thingman and chieftain owed each other duties of support. […] The ideal is well stated by Eyjolf to his own thingmen as he requests their support in his struggles against the Ljosvetning kin group […]

Now if the debtor pleads that "I do not know the law but I will comply with whatever the thingmen think lawful," he [the creditor] must summon him before the thing after five nights, at the shortest, and five times five at the longest, if he knows when the thing is to meet; […] it is then the duty of the thingmen to decide the matter and to award him his money.

Word Forms

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Related Words

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