An archer with a crossbow; a soldier armed with a crossbow.
c. 1500. Melusine, 132. A thousand men of armes, & C crosbowe men.
1632. J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 11. He armed her with twise as many crossebow-men as souldiers.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer. (1778), II. v. 9. Thirty-two were cross-bow-men.
1843. Prescott, Mexico (1850), I. 372. The artillery, the arquebusiers, and crossbowmen, were to support one another.
