Partisan

Definitions

1. An adherent to a party or faction.
2. A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.
   historical
3. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
4. A soldier armed with such a weapon.
   obsolete
5. A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
6. The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“"Strong partisans of neither party, Indiana farmers failed to act as a block⟳ […]"”

“I had as lief have⟳ a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave.”

“Salisbury and his attendants were also now drawing near, with bills and partisans brandished, and bows already bended.”

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