| 单词 | firing party |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfiring party firing party n. (a) a group of soldiers detailed to fire the salute at a military funeral; (b) a group of soldiers detailed to execute a person by shooting him or her; cf. firing squad n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > firing-party firing party1768 firing squad1861 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > firing-party firing party1768 firing squad1861 1768 B. Cuthbertson Syst. Compl. Managem. Battalion of Infantry xxvi. 196 The firing-party should also be composed in the same manner. 1795 Morning Post 16 June There two coffins were then placed before them, and a firing party selected from their own regiment, to put the sentence of death into execution. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 48 The Firing party move to the grave. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 5 Jan. 6/1 Such portions of the flower of anarchy as escaped from the barricades would meet their fates..with their backs to some barrack wall at the hands of firing parties. 1963 W. Starkie Scholars & Gypsies vi. 146 Two hours after the firing party had done their job Skeffington was seen to be alive writhing on the ground in the barracks yard, and a second firing party was ordered out to despatch him. 2006 Times 16 Aug. 3/5 His comrades cried as they formed the firing party and some shot wide. It took three volleys to kill him. 2014 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 July c4 The precision team of pallbearers carried the flag-draped casket; a firing party shot three rifle volleys. < as lemmas |
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