| 单词 | on commando |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (also upon) commando b. on (also upon) commando, on militia service in the Boer army; engaged in a commando. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > [adverb] in the field?1473 a warfare1483 on (also upon) commando1824 1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. 111 The master himself was at this time absent on the Commando, or militia-service, against the Caffres in the Zuureveld. 1837 J. E. Alexander Narr. Voy. Observ. W. Afr. xv. 380 The colonists..disliked..going on commando into Kaffir-land to recover stolen property. 1879 Chambers's Jrnl. 344/1 All the men capable of bearing arms were then on commando. 1899 Daily News 30 Sept. 5/3 Burghers refusing to go on commando. 1900 R. Kipling in J. Ralph War's Brighter Side (1901) viii. 117 We sailed upon commando To vierneuk our Brother Boer. < as lemmas |
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