posseman
- n an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse
- Twenty-four hours after his leap on Troy Wade he was found in a pit on the Ouachita River levee, still holding his shotgun, 50 yards from the spot where the posseman had been .
- When one rider pinned a youth against a porch, a priest rushed up and pleaded, "Please let that boy go!" The posseman whacked the priest on the shoulder, snarled, "You bastard .