Definition of "shireman" []

• A sheriff. Compare earl. (noun)
• A man belonging to “the shires” (which see, under shire). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Major was a ruddy-complexioned man in his late forties with the closed, hard face of a York-shireman, a handlebar mustache, and the kind of mien one found only in retired boxers, which as it turned out he had been during his stint in the army."
• "He worked desperately hard, and having, through his fellow-shireman Samuel Read, become connected with the "Illustrated London News," he made for it many drawings of the sort now called "actuality.""
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