[f. tribe’s, genitive of TRIBE sb. + MAN sb.1 (Cf. clansman.)] a. A man belonging to a tribe; a member of a tribe. Chiefly pl. b. With possessive, a man of one’s own tribe, a fellow-tribesman.
1798. Southey, Rose, 28. For her Her tribes-men sigh’d in vain.
1837. Wheelwright, trans. Aristoph., II. 117. Why spare our stones, my fellow tribesmen?
1883. Standard, No. 18465. 5/2. To make a meal off the grasshopper with the tribesmen of the Sierra Nevada.
1893. Eliza R. Sutherland, in Barrows, Parl. Relig., I. 635. An animal dying of itself may not be eaten by a tribesman, but might be sold to a stranger.
1905. Times, 13 Sept., 3/3. A patrol … has been fired on by Tebetekentzy tribesmen.
