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Noun
en-noun|yeomen

1. An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household.
2. A third in order of the feudal servant fighting class below knight, squire and above a page. A yeoman archer is typically a mounted archer but who fights on foot, sometimes called a man-at-arms.
3. A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
4. A Yeoman Warder.
5. A clerk in the US navy, and US Coast Guard.
6. A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
7. A member of the Imperial Yeomanry officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
8. UK A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land.
9. nautical In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.

Derived terms
chief yeoman of the signals
good yeoman service
king's yeoman
navigator's yeoman
queen's yeoman
traveling yeoman
yeoman archer
yeoman of the king's pantry
yeoman of the king's buttery
yeoman of the horse or carriage
yeoman usher of the black rod
yeomanry
yeomanry cavalry
yeoman's job
yeoman's service
yeoman of the stores
yeomen of the chamber
yeomen of the crown
yeomen of the guard

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