| 单词 | ammunition loaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasammunition loaf C2. As a modifier with the sense ‘supplied to soldiers as equipment or rations’, as ammunition boots, ammunition bread, ammunition hat, ammunition loaf, ammunition shoes, etc.Now chiefly historical except in ammunition boots. ΚΠ 1633 H. Hexham Iournall Anno 1632 9 There was once or twice a weeke Ammunition bread brought to euery Regiment. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 471 An ammunition loafe of bread was sold for 18 soals. 1697 London Gaz. mmmccxcvi/4 Deserted..Thomas Stone..took away with him his Ammunition Hat. 1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 214 He din'd on Lion's marrow, spread On toasts of ammunition-bread. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 152 The Men are entitled to their Ammunition Boots or Shoes, with the rest of their Clothing. 1870 R. Whiteing Wonderful Escapes 150 At length a camp bed, mattress, and blankets were brought me, and beside it an ammunition loaf of six pounds' weight. 1915 S. Afr. Q. Mar.–May 99/1 The bread is soured and dry, as ‘ammunition’ bread should be. 1935 M. R. Anand Untouchable 5 The sharp, bitter wind..had penetrated..the regulation overcoat, breeches, puttees and ammunition boots of the military uniform that clothed him. 1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 4 They were, incidentally, the finest drivers I have ever seen, enormous jungle-wallahs in greatcoats and vast ammunition boots, with tribal cuts on their beaming black faces. < as lemmas |
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