| 单词 | grenadier guards |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGrenadier Guards a. Originally: a soldier trained to throw grenades. Now (in the British army) only in the name of the Grenadier Guards (colloquial. Grenadiers), the first regiment of household infantry.At first, four or five grenadiers were attached to each company, but later, each battalion or regiment had a company of them. Though grenades went out of general use in the eighteenth century, the name of ‘grenadiers’ was retained for a company of the tallest and finest men in the regiment. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one using missiles > grenades grenadier1676 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British Ulsters1649 Scots Guardsa1675 fusilier1680 guards1682 Scots Dragoons1689 Scots Fusiliers1689 Inniskilling1715 Scots Greys1728 blue1737 Black Watch1739 Oxford blues1766 green linnets1793 Grenadiers1800 slashers1802 the Buffs1806 tartan1817 Gay Gordons1823 cheesemongers1824 Green Jacket1824 The Bays1837 RHA1837 dirty half-hundred1841 die-hard1844 lifeguard1849 cherry-picker1865 lancer-regiment1868 cheeses1877 Territorial Regiment1877 the Sweeps1879 dirty shirts1887 Scottish Rifles1888 shiner1891 Yorkshire1898 imperials1899 Irish guards1902 Hampshires1904 BEF1914 Old Contemptibles1915 contemptibles1917 Tank Corps1917 the Tins1918 skins1928 pioneer corps1939 red devils1943 Blues and Royals1968 U.D.R.1969 1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 405 If I went on with these Grenadeers, I would if possible, escape. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1678 (1955) IV. 137 Now were brought into service a new sort of souldier called Granadiers, who were dextrous to fling hand granados. 1686 London Gaz. No. 2106/4 Capt. Cornwallis's Company of Grenadiers in the Holland Regiment. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Prol. For Peace allays the Shepherd's Fear Of wearing Cap of Granadier. 1776 C. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 202 I have formed two companies of grenadiers to each regiment. 1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 164 I was in hopes that the grenadiers and the cavalry would have joined Lieut. Colonel Maclean. 1816 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges iii. 87 [The swimmers] were speedily followed by six companies of grenadiers in the boats. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 91 Guarded by griefs and grenadiers. < as lemmas |
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