单词 | irish guard |
释义 | Irish guardn. 1. A regiment of guards made up of Irish soldiers, esp. one forming part of a monarch's personal troops or guard. Also in plural. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > others Tilt Yard guard1528 safeguard1609 Irish guard1642 water-guard1776 forage-guard1819 tilt guard1894 1642 R. Maxwell in E. Borlase Hist. Execrable Irish Rebellion (1680) 137 The later was seen by all those of the Deponents Family, and besides by many of his Irish guard. 1705 J. Michelborne Ireland Preserv'd ii. iv. 90 Come, Captain of the Irish Guards, you shall be well attended. 1787 J. Ferrar Hist. Limerick v. 342 Amidst a circle of officers, he applied to O'Cavenagh, colonel of the Irish guards. 1850 Aberdeen Jrnl. 6 Mar. 8/5 The plan proposed by the Pope of establishing an Irish guard. 1874 Times 30 June 10/2 In the reigns of Charles and James II., a regiment of Irish Guards had served with honour, like its English and Scotch fellows. 1908 P. Nolan Irish Dames of Ypres ii. i. 378 The Spanish King promoted him to the command of his Irish guard, with the rank of colonel. 2. In the 17th and 18th cent.: a squadron of the British Navy with responsibility for patrolling the Irish Sea. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squadron > specific Irish guard1644 blue1653 Blue Squadron1665 white squadron1666 white1668 red1690 red squadron1702 1644 in State Papers Domest.: Chas. I (P.R.O.: SP 16/504/67) 556/4 That the Commissioners of the Navy order the victuallers of the navy to provide victuals for two months..for the ‘Lion’, ‘Entrance’, and ‘Crescent’ frigate, part of the Irish guard, that they may keep at sea till other ships be provided. 1650 T. Scott Let. 2 Nov. in J. Nickolls Orig. Lett. & Papers of State Addressed to Oliver Cromwell (1743) 28 Order is taken with the victualers of the Navy..to make provision for two hundred men for this winter's guard..; and for the rest of the Irish guard, stoares are made at Kinsale. 1962 J. R. Powell Navy in Eng. Civil War x. 150 Nineteen ships were allotted to the Irish Guard, of which nine were to guard Milford Haven and to ply about Land's End. 2001 P. M. Kerrigan in P. Lenihan Conquest & Resistance 155 In 1643 the ‘Irish Guard’ of Parliament's navy consisted of eight warships and thirteen armed merchant ships. 3. In plural, with capital initials. An infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1900 during the Boer War (1899–1902). Also in singular: a member of this regiment. ΘΚΠ 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 1899 Times 25 Oct. 7/3 The part which is being taken by Irishmen in the present war has brought forward once more in many Irish circles the question of the establishment of an Imperial regiment of Irish Guards.] 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 684/1 The Queen..issued an order..for a new regiment of Irish Guards to be constituted. 1923 R. Kipling (title) The Irish Guards in the Great War. 1967 A. Farrar-Hockley Death of Army v. 179 General Landon had sent him the 2nd Grenadier Guards and the Irish Guards. 1968 L. Burton Vulnerable Children 137 She might have a son—her first baby—and he'll go into the Air Force, or join up as an Irish Guard. 1999 Soldier June 16/2 The battle-group has..a mortar section from the Irish Guards. 2007 Oxf. Times (Nexis) 5 July Kieron Mallon, who is himself a former Irish Guard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1642 |
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