| 单词 | scots dragoons |
| 释义 | > as lemmasScots Dragoons b. Designating a regiment of the British Army chiefly composed of Scottish soldiers or soldiers with Scottish sympathies. Frequently in the names of such regiments, as Scots Fusiliers, Scots Dragoons, etc. Cf. Scots Guard n. 2, Scots Greys at grey n. 8, Scottish adj. 7b. 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 1689 London Gaz. No. 2463/3 A hundred and fifty Dragoons, commanded by Sir Thomas Levingston, Colonel of the Scots Dragoons and Lieutenant-Colonel Hawley of Berkley's Regiment. 1715 in J. Sinclair Mem. Insurr. Scotl. (1858) 216 Particularlie the Scots Fusilieers with their caps. 1722 Caledonian Mercury 21 June in Sc. National Dict. at Scots Saturday last there was a Review of the Scots Royal Gray Horse in the Links of Leith. 1817 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 1 Feb. H. F. Muller, of the 1st or Royal Scots Regiment of Foot. 1862 A. K. Murray Sc. Regim. 70 The Scots Fusilier Guards, with the Grenadiers and Coldstreams, were stationed in the chateau and grounds of Hougomont. 1883 Macmillan's Mag. 47 443 Twenty-five mounted infantry of the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers. 1919 A. Conan Doyle Brit. Campaign France & Flanders 1918 ii. 43 The Germans had made some advance..and the 7/8 Scots Borderers on the left wing had to fall back to preserve the line. 1969 D. Dilks Curzon in India I. 199 Early in 1900, a private of the Royal Scots Fusiliers battered a punkah-coolie to death with a dumb-bell and..was brought to trial and acquitted. 1993 G. L. Rottman Armies of Gulf War 20/2 Two of the regiments (Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and Queen's Royal Irish Hussars) had four tank squadrons (57 tanks, 670 men). < as lemmas |
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