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单词 inniskilling
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Inniskillingn.

/ɪnɪˈskɪlɪŋ/
Forms: Also Enniskillen, Enniskilling, Inniskellen, Inniskillen.
Etymology: < Inniskilling, the name of the county town of Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.
Used attributively or absol. to designate a regiment originally raised for the defence of Inniskilling in 1689.
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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
1690 A. Hamilton (title) A true relation of the actions of the Inniskillingmen, from their first taking up of arms in December, 1688 for the defence of the Protestant religion, and their lives and liberties.]
1715 in E. S. Jackson Inniskilling Dragoons (1909) ii. 35 A detachment of Greys and Inniskillings arrived in Edinburgh from Stirling.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 243/2 Its [sc. Inniskilling's] inhabitants distinguished themselves..in the wars of Ireland at the revolution, out of which a regiment of dragoons, bearing the title of the Inniskilleners, was mostly formed. They form the 6th regiment of dragoons in the British Army.
1817 G. Jones Battle of Waterloo II. 55 The second heavy brigade of cavalry..consisted of..the 6th, or Inniskillings.
1822 M. Edgeworth Let. 11 Feb. (1971) 347 Will you inquire for Wilkie what is put on the caps of the Inniskellen 6th Dragoons... If you know of any Dragoon that would be better than the Inniskillen tell me.
1893 J. C. Ropes Campaign of Waterloo xvi. 300 In rear of the left wing..stood the Union brigade..composed of the Royal Dragoons, the Scots Greys, and the Inniskilling Dragoons.
1968 Encycl. Brit. IX. 185/1 At Newtownbutler, in 1689, the Protestant Enniskillen men severely defeated a superior Roman Catholic army of James II and began the victorious tradition of the ‘Inniskillings’, now represented in the British Army by the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
1971 G. Blaxland Regiments Depart vi. 204 The previous December..the Inniskilling Dragoon Guards were relieved by the 1st Royal Tank Regiment.

Derivatives

Inniˈskilliner n. a member of this regiment.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]
spahi1562
legionnaire1595
strelitz1603
Croat1623
deli1667
Croatian1700
lancer1712
highlander1725
lambs1744
royals1762
light-bob1778
fly-slicer1785
Life Guardsman1785
royals?1795
Hottentot1796
yeoman1798
pandour1800
Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811
forty-two man1816
kilty1842
Zouave1848
bumblerc1850
Inniskilliner1853
blue cap1857
turco1860
Zou-Zou1860
mudlark1878
king's man1883
Johnny1888
Piffer1892
evzone1897
horse gunner1897
dink1906
army ranger1910
grognard1912
Jock1914
chocolate soldier1915
Cook's tourist1915
dinkum1916
Anzaca1918
choc1917
ranger1942
Chindit1943
Desert Rat1944
Green Beret1949
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 141/1 Inniskilliners, the officers and soldiers of the 6th dragoons and the 27th foot are so called, from the two regiments having been originally raised at Inniskilling, a town of Ulster.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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