Turcoman

[ tur-kuh-muhn ]

noun

, plural Tur·co·mans.

1. Turkoman.
2. Turkmen.

Example Sentences

On a march, the Turcoman rode on a horse behind an esquire: during the time of war he was led by a cord, to prevent his escape.

From Project Gutenberg

In front of him six Turcoman merchants, with their hands bound behind their backs, knelt upon the ground, and beside him two Tartars held by either arm a man in European dress, whom Olga recognized at once as the English traveller from India by way of the Himalayas.

From Project Gutenberg

One second it glanced bright in the torchlight; the next second a Turcoman's head lay rolling in the dust, and a little torrent of blood spurted suddenly from the still kneeling corpse.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the Tartar moved on, obedient to a word and a nod from Niaz, and raised his sword again above the second Turcoman.

From Project Gutenberg

One flashpoint that U.S. troops have helped police has been the contested frontier of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, which seeks to extend its control to include the key city of Kirkuk -- a prospect fiercely resisted, to the point of threatening confrontation, by the city's Arab and Turcoman population, with the backing of Baghdad.

From Time