单词 | to have the rearward |
释义 | > as lemmasto have (also keep, make) the rearward a. to have (also keep, make) the rearward: to command the third division of a body of troops; (of troops) to maintain a defensive position at the rear of an army. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (intransitive)] > occupy position in rear to have (also keep, make) the rearwardc1380 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2712 (MED) Y me-self and Olyuer..Wolleþ come be-hynde her & kepe þe rereward. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 7781 (MED) Antiochus had þe forme warde And Tholomeus þe rere warde [v.r. reirwarde]. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 14662 Ho schal haue the vaunwarde, Who the myddel, and ho the rerewarde. a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 3757 Aufreus of Tharse..The rereward he kept ful wiselie. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 58 Schir Eduard..Befor in the avaward raid. The kyng him-self the reirward maid. 1583 Examinacion O. Mac D. O'Moribertagh in E. Spenser Compl. Wks. (1884) I. 484 The examinate..appointed the souldieres to keepe the rerewarde. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. v. §1. 295 These had the Rereward, and moued last. 1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia vi. viii. 147 As for you the chiefe Commander of the Reare, see you keepe the Rereward and give a charge unto the other Rear-commaunders to have an eye to those under them. < as lemmas |
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