| 单词 | foot company |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoot company foot company n. historical in later use ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > regiment > infantry regiment > division of foot company1586 company1590 field battalion1714 section1863 1586 T. Wilkes Let. 9 Dec. in H. Brugmans Correspondentie van R. Dudley (1931) I. 311 The footecompanies are not reduced all to 200 heades, as was appointed. 1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline lxvii. 174 The severall motions and grounds; for the disciplining of a foot-company. 1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 28 Feb. 2/2 But the Gentlemen Troopers with their Officers..and the Officers of the Foot Companies were regaled with a handsome Dinner. 1812 S. E. Brydges Collins's Peerage of Eng. VIII. 463 On March 14th, 1660, he was made captain of a foot company, pursuant to privy signet. 1904 K. Asakawa Russo-Japanese Confl. xiii. 232 The ‘frontier guards’..were said to have been made up of fifty-five mounted squadrons, fifty-five foot companies, and six batteries of artillery. 2008 L. E. Modesitt Mage-Guard of Hamor ix. 89 It is unlikely that any of the mages in Merowey could affect more than a squad at a time, a foot company, perhaps, if they were in a tight formation. < as lemmas |
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