American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. An armed man pledged to be ready to fight on a
minute's notice just before and during the Revolutionary War in
the United States. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. A man
ready at a minute's notice; specifically, during the American
revolutionary period, one of a class of enrolled militiamen who
held themselves in readiness for instant service in arms
whenever summoned. - n. during the American War for
Independence, a soldier who would fight for the Patriots at a
minute's notice GNU Webster's 1913 - n. A militiaman who was to
be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the
American Revolution. - n. an American militiaman prior to and
during the American Revolution - n. a strategic weapon system
using a guided missile of intercontinental range; missiles are
equipped with nuclear warheads and dispersed in hardened silos
“Or to put the point more piquantly, one person's minuteman is
another person's mujahideen.” “The Ame