Associations to the word «Minuteman»

Wiktionary

MINUTEMAN, noun. During the American War for Independence, a soldier who would fight for the Patriots at a minute's notice

Dictionary definition

MINUTEMAN, noun. An American militiaman prior to and during the American Revolution.
MINUTEMAN, noun. A strategic weapon system using a guided missile of intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads and dispersed in hardened silos.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats