| 单词 | town rats |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTown Rats A line, file, or small company (of soldiers); = rot n.2 In later use only in Town Rats: a (depreciative) name for the soldiers of the City Guard in Edinburgh. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > line > file file1598 string1627 rot1632 rat1646 counter-file1653 1646 W. Baillie in R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 421 I found five ratt musqueteers, more than ane musquet-shott at randome before their bodie. 1649 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1936) VII. 195 Major Weir to send doun twa ratt of men under the command of a serjand. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 331 He directit also the Laird of Haddoche and James Gordon..to go to Torry with a rate of mvskiteires. 1825 R. Chambers Traditions II. 151 The Town Rats..on hearing his drum, would draw in their horns with a Gaelic execration, and shut their door as he approached. 1859 J. Maidment Sc. Ballads 220 A party of the City Guard, commonly called the Town Rats, accompanied the Magistrates when they went to proclaim the Fair. 1898 J. Baillie Walter Crighton xi. 156 Yince when the ‘neets’ and knaps were busy at it themselves, the town rats or warriors made a rush at them. 2003 I. Maver in B. Steger & L. Brunt Nighttimes & Sleep in Asia & West vii. 132 The inept Town Guard had become the object of derision. Mostly discharged soldiers from Highland regiments, their unflattering nickname was the ‘Toun Rottens’, which translates from the vernacular as ‘Town Rats’. < as lemmas |
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