1. American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818); [syn: Revere, Paul Revere]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Paul Revere
n 1: American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride
(celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists
in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming
(1735-1818) [syn: Revere, Paul Revere]