carbineer
IPA: kˈɑrbaɪnˈɪr
noun
- (military) A soldier armed with a carbine.
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Examples of "carbineer" in Sentences
- A carbineer also fired after him from the saddle, but
- Island, and the carbineer company of our regiment, were thrown out as skirmishers.
- If the carbineer (ph) were going to crack this case, they needed to know everything about the family business.
- Udine police, would jam on his brakes so suddenly that we would almost go through the wind-shield if a carbineer held up his hand.
- The 2d Rhode Island, which was at the head of the column, was now ordered to send out skirmishers; also the carbineer company, Captain
- You can expostulate with a London bobbie, you can argue with a Paris gendarme, you can on occasion reason mildly with a New York policeman, but not with an Italian carbineer.
- He saw the lean brown face, picked out by the white light, as a carbineer swung his short-barreled rifle out over the rail -- and the man in the surf-boat knew by that face what was coming.
- Italy, is no place for misunderstandings; the knife decides promptly who is right or wrong, and only two weeks ago I was warned not to cross the district without a carbineer on either side of me.
- Soon the men of F Company that were detailed to serve in the carbineer company joined us; they had been on the skirmish line all the forenoon, but became somewhat mixed when the firing commenced, and were ordered to report to their respective companies.
- The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions -- being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined -- desired to learn how he had come by this jewel.
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