Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Properly, a soldier armed with a fusil; in general, an infantry soldier who bears firearms, as formerly distinguished from a pikeman or an archer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural
- noun A title now borne by some regiments and companies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
fusilier .
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Examples
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He was a few years older than Karl and had already served as a fusileer.
Paras. 100–199 1917
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Abercrombie's men swept to the left of the hill, and Cole, a gallant and able soldier, using the Portuguese regiments in his brigade as a guard against a flank attack of the French cavalry, led his two fusileer regiments, the 7th and 23rd, straight to the crest.
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Blakeney, and Hawkshawe -- fell wounded, and the fusileer battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships.
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No fusileer, with a fixed bayonet and piece loaded with ball, now dictates to the auditors of the pit that such a seat must hold so many persons, though several among them might, probably, be as broad-bottomed as Dutchmen.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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= Frank person franc-tireur fràncti-rer frisée, frisé frìzây frottage frótàzh frou-frou froû-frou fuselage fûsilàzh fusil fûzil fusilier, fusileer fusilêer fusillade fuzilàd
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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= Frank person franc-tireur fràncti-rer frisée, frisé frìzây frottage frótàzh frou-frou froû-frou fuselage fûsilàzh fusil fûzil fusilier, fusileer fusilêer fusillade fuzilàd
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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= Frank person franc-tireur fràncti-rer frisée, frisé frìzây frottage frótàzh frou-frou froû-frou fuselage fûsilàzh fusil fûzil fusilier, fusileer fusilêer fusillade fuzilàd
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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= Frank person franc-tireur fràncti-rer frisée, frisé frìzây frottage frótàzh frou-frou froû-frou fuselage fûsilàzh fusil fûzil fusilier, fusileer fusilêer fusillade fuzilàd
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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= Frank person franc-tireur fràncti-rer frisée, frisé frìzây frottage frótàzh frou-frou froû-frou fuselage fûsilàzh fusil fûzil fusilier, fusileer fusilêer fusillade fuzilàd
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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= Frank person franc-tireur fràncti-rer frisée, frisé frìzây frottage frótàzh frou-frou froû-frou fuselage fûsilàzh fusil fûzil fusilier, fusileer fusilêer fusillade fuzilàd
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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