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ˈland-ˌservice
Service performed on land; military, as opposed to naval, service.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 123 Seeing wherein the Sea-discipline differed from Land-service. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 154 As I was then aduised by my learned Councel, in the lawes of this Land-seruice, I did not come. 1697Dryden æneis Ded. f 3, I Writ not always in the proper terms of Navigation, Land-Service, or in the Cant of any Profession. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 57 A good army for land-service. 1801T. S. Surr Splendid Misery II. 194 Salano, a Neapolitan pirate originally..took to the land service afterwards, and committed murders out of number. 1819Byron Juan i. iv, The prince is all for the land-service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis. |