Definition of "hillsman" [hillsman]

• A man who belongs to a tribe inhabiting the hills. (noun)

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• "But these ragged clothes and these weapons are belted and worn with a certain air and matched in a certain manner, neither of which can be acquired by everybody and which at once strike the eye of a Cossack or a hillsman."
• "Now, with unprecedented courage and a strength that amazed everyone, he slew and subdued an innumerable host of hillsmen; now he was himself a hillsman and with them was maintaining their independence against the Russians."
• "He respects his enemy the hillsman and despises the soldier, who is in his eyes an alien and an oppressor."