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Soldiery :: Soldiery (n.) Military service.

Line :: Line (n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers..

Blackcoat :: Blackcoat (n.) A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat..

Marker :: Marker (n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment..

Ration :: Ration (n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence..

Pioneer :: Pioneer (n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances..

Cuirassier :: Cuirassier (n.) A soldier armed with a cuirass.

Zouave :: Zouave (n.) One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Arab dress..

Skirmisher :: Skirmisher (n.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column..

Pompon :: Pompon (n.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather..

Jackman :: "Jackman (n.) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n..

Hoplite :: Hoplite (n.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.

Imperator :: Imperator (n.) A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor..

Platoon :: Platoon (n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square..

Demilancer :: Demilancer (n.) A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance..

File :: File (n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks..

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..

Deserter :: Deserter (n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion..

Gownman :: Gownman (n.) One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier..

Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp..

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