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ˈraiding, ppl. a.
[f. raid v. + -ing2.]
a. In senses of the verb.
b. raiding party, a small military group taking part in an organized foray into enemy territory, esp. in order to seize prisoners or supplies.
1865R. H. Kellogg Life & Death in Rebel Prisons iii. 97 All communications were interrupted by our ‘raiding parties’. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 45 Jove now circuits heaven and taketh note Of raiding flames. 1885Harper's Mag. Mar. 611/1 Washington detailed soldiers to guard them from British raiding parties. 1892M. A. Jackson Life & Lett. Gen. Jackson xxiii. 462 The raiding-parties of the enemy were operating all through the intervening country. 1914G. Bell Let. 21 Jan. (1927) I. xiii. 327 They had spied us as we passed under the Thlaithuwât and, taking us for a raiding party, had followed us to see where we were going. 1918E. A. Mackintosh War iv. 126 The raiding party dispersed each to a dug-out to feed at other people's expense. 1923Kipling Irish Guards in Gt. War I. 220 Raiding-parties dove in and out of the front lines. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 300/2 When he saw a German raiding-party approaching he forgot in his excitement to take off his safety-catch. 1977B. Lucas tr. C. De Foucauld's Lett. from Desert vii. 140 He was killed on 13 December..by a raiding party of thirty horsemen who then disappeared. |