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Definition of Matman
1. Noun. Combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground.
Specialized synonyms: Bantamweight, Featherweight, Flyweight, Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight, Lightweight, Middleweight, Sumo Wrestler, Welterweight
Generic synonyms: Battler, Belligerent, Combatant, Fighter, Scrapper
Derivative terms: Grapple, Wrestle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matman
Literary usage of Matman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Bulletin (1905)
"Each tapper is accompanied by a boy, his son or some near relative, so that both
tappers and matman have the same interest in the cleanliness of the mat ..."
2. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the by Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes (1885)
"... to love, to desire ; kam-ya, agreeable ; kâma, wish, desire, love, the god of
love ; kâma-tva, love of pleasure ; kama-rasika, libidinous ; Ica-matman, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"... ta matman ;' — but pursuit and opposition were in vain. I pursued my career;
the smell of the sea, I suppose, led me to Leith, where, soon after, ..."
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