Yeoman

yC'man, n. a man of common rank next below a gentleman a man of small estate an officer of the royal household. [Found in O- Fris. gamnn, villager ga, a village (Goth. gam, Ger. gait), and Man cf. also Bavarian gait-man, a peasant.] yeomen or freeholders. Yeomanry, yi/man-ri, n. the collective body of