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Fusilier

noun
1.
(formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket.






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"Fusilier" Quotes from Famous Books



... afraid. There's Sime, my butler. He was a Fusilier Jock and, as you saw, has lost an arm. Then McGuffog the keeper is a good man, but he's still got a Turkish bullet in his thigh. The chauffeur, Carfrae, was in the Yeomanry, and lost half a foot; and there's myself, as lame as a duck. ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan

... is no reason for despising an animal which has always been respected from remote antiquity to the present day. It is impossible to be too careful when in pursuit of dangerous game. My friend Colonel Knox of the Scots Fusilier Guards, an experienced and fearless sportsman, very nearly lost his life in an encounter with a lioness, although under the circumstances he could hardly be blamed for want of due precaution. He had shot the animal, which ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker

... O.C., who was very full of the news, "all East Cheshire Details. Apparently the East Cheshires are holding an awkward position on a place called Fusilier Bluff, and being killed like stink by a well-placed whizz-bang gun. They've got about fifty men and half an officer left per company. They're screaming for reinforcements. Salt ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond



Words linked to "Fusilier" :   foot soldier, footslogger, infantryman, marcher



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