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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne