| 单词 | watering call |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswatering call watering call n. Military (now historical) a call or signal summoning members of the cavalry to water their horses. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > cavalry signals mountee1415 tucket1605 boute-selle1628 boot and saddle1697 watering call1798 stable-call1889 stable1908 1798 E. Hoyt Treat. Mil. Art I. ii. v. 165 The Watering Call, is sounded half an hour after the morning call, and is the signal for watering the horses. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 327/1 Watering-Call, a trumpet sounding, on which the cavalry assemble to water their horses. 2004 E. A. Campbell in B. C. Kelley & M. A. Snell Bugle Resounding 211 The first bugle-call blown was..followed..by ‘Assembly’, ‘Reveille’, ‘Stable Call’, ‘Breakfast Call’, ‘Sick Call’, ‘Watering Call’, [etc.] < as lemmas |
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