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Definition of Cave man
1. Noun. Someone who lives in a cave.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cave Man
Literary usage of Cave man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Dr. Mitchell showed that the cave-man's weapons of the chase and war were made
... From an elaborate examination of the objects which the cave-man has left ..."
2. Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period by William Boyd Dawkins (1880)
"THE CAVE-MAN AND THE ADVANCE IN CULTURE. The Caves of Cresswell Crags.—The Pin
Hole.—The Robin Hood and Church Hole Caves.—The Three Pleistocene Strata. ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"I always have thought that the first original cave man—you know there was a cave
man and a cave woman, although we do not know so much about that except ..."
4. Anthropology and the Classics: Six Lectures Delivered Before the University by Robert Ranulph Marett, Arthur Evans, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Frank Byron Jevons, John Linton Myres, William Warde Fowler (1908)
"To gather impetus for our imaginative leap into the classical period we start,
it is true, from the cave-man, ..."
5. The Later Cave-men by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (1906)
"74 A cave-man s glove So A stone maul 89 Fur gloves 90 A snowshoe 91 "Then ...
102 A Cave-man's carving of a "hamstrung" animal 114 A wedge or tent pin . ..."
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