grinder

From Middle English grinder, grindere, from Old English grindere (“one or that which grinds; grinder”), equivalent to grind + -er.

inh

We were told then and there that we wouldn't be allowed on the grinder again until we could do a lot better. The grinder is what that large area was called, and it was a fitting name. They literally ground us down on it.

Company formations are held on the grinder (basketball court outside the Quarterdeck).

2013, USMC Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC / TC3) Guidelines:

(US, military, slang) An outdoor space for drills and parades.


torpedo

* Borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) + -ēdō (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). In the military sense coined by Robert Fulton in 1805. Cognate with Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).
* (type of car): From 1908, after "the Torpedo", a car designed by Captain Theo Masui.

cog

I stood rigid, spellbound, watching the white wake of the torpedo. It struck us on the starboard side almost amidships. The vessel rocked as though the sea beneath it had been uptorn by a mighty volcano.

1918, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Land that Time Forgot, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:

Four Japanese torpedo boats launch an attack on the Suvorov. Despite burning steadily for several hours and now taking a torpedo to the stern, the ship still lashes out at its attackers with a few remaining guns. With no pressing need to continue the attack to closer range, the torpedo boats fall back, noting the position for a night attack if Suvorov survives that long.

2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 2022-12-04:

And if fate should turn her back on them, or turn away from them, leaving them to their own devices, and should they find themselves be sore afraid, then they would simply sail away to the other side of the world. They would ride like the wind. They would sail once more into the breach and damn the torpedos! God save the Queen! And the devil take the hindmost!

2020, Ted Bell, Dragonfire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley, published 2021, →ISBN, page 536:

(military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.

(science fiction) A similar projectile that can travel through space.

(obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo.


torpedo

From English torpedo, borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) + -ēdō (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”).

(military) a torpedo; a cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon


satellite

English: satellite

French: satellite

Dutch: satelliet

Borrowed from Latin satellitem, accusative singular of satelles.

(military, Antiquity) a guard or watchman


director

directors (plural)
directour (alternative obsolete)

/daɪ̯əˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin dīrēctor, dīrēctōrem, from Latin dīrēctus.

(military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.


warrant

en-noun

warrant (countable and uncountable, plural warrants)

warrants (plural)
warraunt (alternative)

→ Cantonese: 窩輪 /窝轮 (wo¹ leon⁴⁻²), 花令

→ Italian: warrant

→ Malay: waran

The noun is derived from Middle English warant (“protector; guard, shield, protection”), from Anglo-Norman warrant, Old Northern French warant, warand, a variant of Old French guarant, garant, garand (“assurance, guarantee; authorization, permission; protector; protection, safety”) (modern French garant), from Frankish *warand, present participle of *warjan (“to fend off; to stop, thwart”). The word is cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).
The verb is derived from Middle English warrant, waranten (“to give protection; to protect, shield; to assure, pledge, promise; to guarantee”), from Anglo-Norman warantir, warandir, warentir, and Old Northern French warandir, warantir, variant forms of Old French guarantir (“to protect”) (modern French garantir), a Romance formation from the noun guarant: see above.

inh

[Dave T.] Daniels also stated that many supported the idea of an officers indoctrination course, with the aim of preparing warrants for broader responsibility.

2006, David R. Welsh, “Warrant Officer Associations over the Years: Chief Warrant Officers & Warrant Officers Association U.S. Coast Guard: 1919–Present”, in The Legacy of Leadership as a Warrant Officer, Nashville, Tenn., Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 40:

(military, countable) Ellipsis of warrant officer.

Several days passed away, and at length down came an order for [Harry] Bartlett to go on shore and take up his warrant for a sloop of war that was then round at Plymouth, to which place he was to make all haste to join. […] "Well, my man," said Sir Joseph [Sydney Yorke], in his usual deliberative manner, "and so it has pleased the powers aloft to reward your deserts, and you are now a warrant officer."

1854, “The Old Sailor” [pseudonym; Matthew Henry Barker], “Harry Bartlett”, in Floating Remembrances and Sketches of a Sea Life, London: Whittaker and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Dearden, →OCLC, page 86:

(countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.


orderly

orderlies (plural)
ordrely (alternative)

(military) A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.

ординарец

soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer — see also batman


tromba

→ Middle French: trombe

desctree

French: trombe
→ English: tromp
→ German: Trombe
→ Swedish: tromb

→ Hijazi Arabic: طُرُمْبَة (ṭurumba)

→ Spanish: tromba

→ Ottoman Turkish: طولومبه (tulumba), طولمبه (tulumba), طلومبه (tulumba), طلمبه (tulumba), تلومبه (tulumba), تلومبا (tulumba), طلومبا (tulumba), طولومبا (tulumba)
Turkish: tulumba
→ Albanian: tullumbë
→ Arabic: طُلُمْبَة (ṭulumba)
→ Armenian: թուլումպա (tʻulumpa)
→ Azerbaijani: tulumba (archaic)
→ Georgian: თულუმბა (tulumba) — Chveneburi
→ Persian: تلمبه (tolombe)
→ Romanian: tulumbă

From a Germanic source (Frankish *trumba, Old High German trumpa, Old Norse trumba), all imitative.

onomatopoeic

imitative


debole

From Italian debole, meaning "weak", equivalent to the French foible.

There are two parts to the sword: the forte and the debole. The forte begins from the hilt, extending as far as the middle of the blade; and the remainder is called the debole. The forte is for parrying, and the debole for striking. This is really important because: if you always keep your forte in the way of the opponent's debole, you will never be hit.

(fencing) The flexible part of the blade near the tip of light swords such as rapiers.


cheeseburger

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Etymology tree
Latin cāseusbor.
Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz
Proto-West Germanic *kāsī
Old English ċīese
Middle English chese
English cheese
English hamburger
English cheeseburger
Blend of cheese + hamburger (1928). By surface analysis, cheese + -burger.


rock and roll

/ˈɹɒk ən(d)ˈɹəʊl/

From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was an euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll").
As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.

rock-and-roll (alternative)
rock'n'roll (alternative)
rock 'n' roll (alternative)
rock n roll (alternative)
rock 'n roll (alternative)
rock-n-roll (alternative)
rock-'n'-roll (alternative)
rock & roll (alternative)

(military, slang, US) The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.


mount

From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman munter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter.

(martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.


mount

en-verb

mount (third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted)

mounts (present singular third-person)
mounting (participle present)
mounted (participle past)
mounted (past)

(transitive, martial arts) To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.


英雄

/iŋ⁵⁵ ɕi̯ʊŋ³⁵/

/iŋ²⁴ ɕyŋ²⁴/

/jɪŋ⁵⁵ hʊŋ²¹/

/iŋ⁵⁵ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ŋyŋ⁵³/

/iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hiɔŋ²⁴/

/iɪŋ³³ hiɔŋ²⁴/

/iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hiɔŋ¹³/

/iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɔŋ²⁴/

/iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɔŋ²³/

/eŋ³³⁻²³ hioŋ⁵⁵/

/in⁵⁵ ɦioŋ²¹/

/*ʔaŋ [ɢ]ʷəŋ/

/iŋ⁵⁵ ɕi̯ʊŋ³⁵/

/iŋ²⁴ ɕyŋ²⁴/

/jɪŋ⁵⁵ hʊŋ²¹/

/iŋ⁵⁵ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ŋyŋ⁵³/

/iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hiɔŋ²⁴/

/iɪŋ³³ hiɔŋ²⁴/

/iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hiɔŋ¹³/

/iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɔŋ²⁴/

/iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɔŋ²³/

/eŋ³³⁻²³ hioŋ⁵⁵/

/in⁵⁵ ɦioŋ²¹/

傳說中的英雄

传说中的英雄

平民英雄

英雄豪傑

英雄豪杰

人民英雄永垂不朽。

King Wu asked the Grand Duke: “If a king wants to raise an army, how should he go about selecting and training heroes and determine their moral qualifications?”

Six Secret Teachings, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on Ralph D. Sawyer's version

Wǔwáng wèn Tàigōng yuē: “Wángzhě jǔbīng, yù jiǎnliàn yīngxióng, zhī shì zhī gāoxià, wéi zhī nàihé?”

武王問太公曰：「王者舉兵，欲簡練英雄，知士之高下，為之奈何？」

武王问太公曰：「王者举兵，欲简练英雄，知士之高下，为之奈何？」

(literally, martial arts, figuratively) hero


warble

en-noun

warble (countable and uncountable, plural warbles)

(military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.


gabion

Borrowed from Italian gabbione, augmentative of gabbia (“cage”), itself from Latin cavea (whence also English jail, English cajole), from Latin cavus (whence also English cage, English cave).

sap

several mentions of gabions in the context of fortifications

When our artillery came before the walls of the town, the English within the walls killed some of our men, and several pioneers who were making gabions. And seeing they were so wounded that there was no hope of curing them, their comrades stripped them, and put them still living inside the gabions, which served to fill them up.

1563, Ambroise Paré, The Journey to Havre de Grace.:

(historical, military) A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).


kinetic

From Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “puts in motion”), from κινέω (kinéō, “I move, put in motion”).

der

(military, euphemistic) Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.^([W])


shoulder

shoulders (plural)
shouder (alternative dialectal)

From Middle English schuldre, sholder, shulder, schulder, from Old English sculdra, sculdor (“shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuldru (“shoulder”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), see shield. Cognate with Old Frisian skuldere (“shoulder”) (West Frisian skouder (“shoulder”)), Middle Low German scholder (“shoulder”), Low German Schuller, Schulder (“shoulder”), Dutch schouder (“shoulder”), German Schulter (“shoulder”).

inh

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

(of an object) The portion between the neck and the body.

(firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.


CV

en-noun

CV (countable and uncountable, plural CVs)

CVs (plural)
C.V. (alternative)
C. V. (alternative)

Abbreviation
* (anime, Japanimation): From Japanese CV (CV), from English character+voice
* (aircraft carrier): Initialism of cruiser (“croiseur”) + French voler (“to fly”).

initialism

(military) Initialism of combat vehicle.

aircraft carrier
aircraft carrier#English

(US, navy) aircraft carrier (“Cruiser Voler”), a diesel-powered warship launching and landing heavier than air flying vehicles (a nuclear-powered one is a CVN)


bloke

blokes (plural)
bloak (alternative archaic)

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Origin unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized:
* From a modern Celtic language, such as Irish bloc (“block”) or Scottish Gaelic ploc (“large, stubborn person”, literally “block of wood”), themselves borrowings from English block
* From Hindustani لوک (lok) / लोक (lok, “people, folk”) or Shelta loke (“man”).

bor

A second green chit and then you get your hat for a talk with the bloke.

1989, Rick Jolly, Trugg Willson, Jackspeak: The Pusser’s Rum: Guide to Royal Navy Slanguage […], Torpoint, Cornwall: Palamanando Publ., →ISBN:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.


AOT

(aviation, military) Initialism of angle off tail (the angle between the flightpaths of the attacking and defending aircraft in a dogfight).


UDP

(military, US) Initialism of Unit Deployment Program.


snowbird

(US military slang) One who enlists in fall to desert after winter.


post

Inherited from Vulgar Latin postus, from positus.


post

head

post m (genitive singular poist, nominative plural poist)

poist (genitive singular)
poist (nominative plural)
post (indefinite nominative singular)
poist (indefinite nominative plural)
a phoist (indefinite singular vocative)
a phosta (indefinite plural vocative)
poist (genitive indefinite singular)
post (genitive indefinite plural)
post (dative indefinite singular)
poist (dative indefinite plural)
an post (definite nominative singular)
na poist (definite nominative plural)
an phoist (definite genitive singular)
na bpost (definite genitive plural)
leis an bpost (dative definite singular)
don phost (dative definite singular)
leis na poist (dative definite plural)
post
phost
bpost
posta (alternative Cois-Fharraige)


organic

en-adj

organic (comparative more organic, superlative most organic)

more organic (comparative)
most organic (superlative)
organick (alternative)

From Middle English organic, organik, from Old French organique, from Latin organicus.

Socially, the term “organic” unit implies a military force characterized by relatively high cohesion, overlapping primary groups and a certain sense of shared past.

1998, Eyal Ben-Ari, Mastering Soldiers: Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Military Unit, Beghahn Books, page 29:

Most types of German field divisions include an organic reconnaissance battalion, and the remainder have strong reconnaissance companies.

1945, U.S. War Department, Handbook on German Military Forces, LSU Press, published 1990, page 161:

(military) Of a military unit or formation, or its elements, belonging to a permanent organization (in contrast to being temporarily attached).


rhubarb

en-noun

rhubarb (countable and uncountable, plural rhubarb or rhubarbs)

From Middle English rubarbe, from Anglo-Norman reubarbe (modern French rhubarbe), from Late Latin reubarbarum, rheubarbarum, rubarbera, rybarba, probably from Koine Greek ῥῆον βάρβαρον (rhêon bárbaron), from ῥῆον (rhêon, “rhubarb”) + Ancient Greek βάρβαρον (bárbaron), neuter of βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign; barbaric”) (English barbarian).
There is also a Medieval Latin variant rabarbarum, which appears to be influenced by Ancient Greek ῥᾶ (rhâ, “rhubarb”), and gave rise to some of the forms in modern languages. The Ancient Greek variant term appears to have been folk-etymologically influenced by Ancient Greek Ῥᾶ (Rhâ, “the River Volga”), which is in the region from which the plant came to the Mediterranean. The ultimate origin of the Ancient Greek terms is, however, Proto-Iranian *(h)rabā́š (“rhubarb, fennel”).
The word is cognate with Catalan ruibarbre, Italian rabarbaro, Dutch rabarber, German Rhabarber, Old Occitan reubarbe, Portuguese ruibarbo, Spanish ruibarbo.

der

ῥῆον βάρβαρον

cog

On 13 December 1942, Squadron Leader [Brian] Lane made his first flight from Ludham, a local familiarisation flight. That afternoon, he led a section of Spitfires low over the North Sea on a ‘Rhubarb’, a low-level sweep over the Dutch coast, looking for targets of opportunity.

2009, Dilip Sarkar, “Foreword”, in Brian Lane, edited by Dilip Sarkar, Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:

(British, military, aviation, historical) A Royal Air Force World War II code name for operations by aircraft (fighters and fighter-bombers) involving low-level flight to seek opportunistic targets.


rhubarb

en-verb

rhubarb (third-person singular simple present rhubarbs, present participle rhubarbing, simple past and past participle rhubarbed)

rhubarbs (present singular third-person)
rhubarbing (participle present)
rhubarbed (participle past)
rhubarbed (past)

der

ῥῆον βάρβαρον

(British, military, aviation) Of fighter aircraft: to fire at a target opportunistically.


zigzag

Attested from 1712. Borrowed from French zigzag (attested from 1662), possibly from a Germanic source via Walloon ziczac (although German Zickzack is attested only from 1703). Also, possibly from the shape of the letter Z, which appears twice in the word. Sense “drunk” from the zigzag movements of a drunk person.


rush

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.

раш

video games: act of running at another player with large swarm of weak units — see also zerg

(military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.

turrje

military: sudden attack — see also onslaught


rush

en-verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

rushes (present singular third-person)
rushing (participle present)
rushed (participle past)
rushed (past)

(intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.

rynnäköidä

(intransitive, military) to make a swift or sudden attack

A detachment of cavalrymen rushed the enemy's position.

(transitive, military) To swiftly attack without warning.

突襲 /突袭

(transitive, military) to swiftly attack without warning


fort

From Old French fort, from Latin fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-.


fort

fort n (definite singular fortet, indefinite plural fort or forter, definite plural forta or fortene)

fortet (definite singular)
fort (indefinite plural)
forter (indefinite plural)
forta (definite plural)
fortene (definite plural)


fort

fort (nominative singular)
forty (nominative plural)
fortu (genitive singular)
fortów (genitive plural)
fortowi (dative singular)
fortom (dative plural)
fort (accusative singular)
forty (accusative plural)
fortem (instrumental singular)
fortami (instrumental plural)
forcie (locative singular)
fortach (locative plural)
forcie (singular vocative)
forty (plural vocative)

Perhaps borrowed from German Fort or French fort.

(military) fort, fortress (fortified defensive structure stationed with troops)


将軍

ja-noun

将(しょう)軍(ぐん) • (shōgun) ^(←しやうぐん (syaugun)?)

将軍 (canonical)
shōgun (romanization)
syaugun (romanization)
しやうぐん (hiragana historical)

→ Danish: shogun c

→ English: shogun

→ French: shogun m

→ Indonesian: syogun

→ Italian: shogun m

→ Polish: siogun m

→ Portuguese: xogum

/sʲaːᵑ kun/ → /ɕauɡun/ → /ɕɔːɡun/ → /ɕoːɡun/
From Middle Chinese compound 將軍 (MC tsjang kjun). Compare modern Min Nan 將軍 /将军 (chiong-kun), Eastern Min 將軍 /将军 (ciŏng-gŭng).
The “shogun” sense is originally short for 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “commander in chief of the expeditionary force to expel barbarians”).

(military) a commander of troops, especially of an expeditionary or frontline force

(military) synonym of 将官 (shōkan): a general officer

(military, historical) a shogun, supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan


issue

From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”).
The legal meaning originated from the concept of "the end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presenting the point to be determined by trial)," leading to the sense of "the controversy over facts in a trial" (early 14th century, Anglo-French). This later extended to mean "a point of contention between two parties" (early 15th century) and more generally, "an important point to be decided" (1836). Consequently, the verbal phrase take issue with emerged in 1797 (preceded by join issue in the 1690s), meaning "to adopt an affirmative or negative stance in a dispute with another." The expression to have issues, meaning "to have unresolved conflicts," dates back to 1990.

drain

small incision etc. to drain excess bodily fluid

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:

(military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.


IBM

en-noun

IBM (countable and uncountable, plural IBMs)

They see this last possibility in an international agreement to stop further atomic and thermonuclear bomb tests and halt the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBMs).

1956 June, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 12, number 6, page 186:

Today we need a defense against IBM attack. When as chief of R&D I urged Army Ordnance to develop an antimissile missile, I heard repeatedly that you can't hit a bullet with a bullet, so it is impossible to develop such a missile.

1987, Kenneth David Nichols, The Road to Trinity, page 294:

Thus, they limit to a strictly defined number the quantity of armed IBMs in the USSR and the United States, as well as ballistic missiles of submarines.

1990, William Elliott Butler, Perestroika and International Law, page 155:

(weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.


stun

en-verb

stun (third-person singular simple present stuns, present participle stunning, simple past and past participle stunned)

stuns (present singular third-person)
stunning (participle present)
stunned (participle past)
stunned (past)

From Middle English stunien, stonien, stounien, from Old English stunian (“to crash, make a loud sound, resound, roar, strike with a loud sound, dash, impinge, knock, confound, astonish, stupefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *stunōn, from Proto-Germanic *stunōną, *stunjaną (“to sound, crash, bang, groan”), from Proto-Germanic *stenaną (“to moan, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tona-, *(s)tena- (“to thunder, roar, groan”) (compare thunder). Cognate with Middle Low German stonen (“to groan”), Middle High German stunen, stunden (“to drive, push, knock, strike”), Swedish stöna (“to moan, groan”), Danish stønne (“to moan, groan”), Icelandic stynja (“to moan”). Related also to Dutch steunen (“to groan; support”), German stöhnen (“to groan, moan”), German staunen (“to be astonished, be amazed, marvel at”), Russian стонать (stonatʹ), стена́ть (stenátʹ, “to moan, groan”). See also Occitan estonar, Old French estoner, French étonner, English astonish.

cog

(Singapore, military, slang) To confiscate (an unguarded rifle, magazine, piece of equipment, etc.) from an unsuspecting soldier as punishment for neglect.


blouse

→ Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)

→ Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)

→ Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)

desc

→ Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)

→ Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)

1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.
More at blee, fold.

der

(military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.

工作罩衫

military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket


blouse

en-verb

blouse (third-person singular simple present blouses, present participle blousing, simple past and past participle bloused)

blouses (present singular third-person)
blousing (participle present)
bloused (participle past)
bloused (past)

An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, "If I fail to blouse my boots, or [if I] wear an Afro, I get socked. […]"

1989, Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page 311:

(military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).


ingress

ingress (third-person singular simple present ingresses, present participle ingressing, simple past and past participle ingressed)

ingresses (present singular third-person)
ingressing (participle present)
ingressed (participle past)
ingressed (past)

From Latin ingressus, from the verb ingredior.

"We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden.

1976, The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories, page 108:

We were ingressing the target area.

1998, Michael William Donnelly, Falcon's Cry, →ISBN, page 93:

(transitive, US, chiefly military) To enter (a specified location or area)


magnum

From Latin magnum, neuter of magnus (“great”).
* (bottle): Ellipsis of magnum bonum.
* (handgun): Name registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts.

(firearms) A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.


garda

From Old Galician-Portuguese guarda, probably a back-formation from gardar.


garda

garda (nominative singular)
gardy (nominative plural)
gardy (genitive singular)
gard (genitive plural)
gardzie (dative singular)
gardom (dative plural)
gardę (accusative singular)
gardy (accusative plural)
gardą (instrumental singular)
gardami (instrumental plural)
gardzie (locative singular)
gardach (locative plural)
gardo (singular vocative)
gardy (plural vocative)

(boxing) guard (way in which boxers position their hands in their stance)


stable

From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, singular derived from the plural Latin stab(u)la (“dwellings, stables”).

close the stable door after the horse has been stolen

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

shut the stable door after the horse has bolted

(sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

Paul, who signed with WWE in late June, appeared in a segment with Reigns' stable, the Bloodline, on Friday's episode of SmackDown after making comments earlier in the week regarding a potential match with the Tribal Chief.

2022 September 17, Thomas Kika, “WWE's Logan Paul Confronts Roman Reigns Amid Rumors of Major Title Bout”, in Newsweek:

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.


Panzer

de-noun

Panzer m (strong, genitive Panzers, plural Panzer)

Panzers (genitive)
Panzer (plural)
Panzer (nominative singular)
Panzer (definite nominative plural)
Panzers (genitive singular)
Panzer (definite genitive plural)
Panzer (dative singular)
Panzern (dative definite plural)
Panzer (accusative singular)
Panzer (accusative definite plural)

Dutch: pantser

Danish: panser

English: panzer

Hungarian: páncél

Ladin: ponzer

Norwegian Bokmål: panser

Norwegian Nynorsk: panser

Polish: pancerz

Russian: панцирь (pancirʹ)

Turkish: panzer

From Middle High German panzer, panzier, from Old French panciere (“coat of mail to protect the belly”), from pance (“paunch, belly”) (compare Medieval Latin panceria, pancerium), from Latin pantex (“paunch, belly”).
See also Pansen.

der

(military) armour, armour plating, shield

(military) ellipsis of Panzerkampfwagen (“tank”, literally “armored combat vehicle”)


Panzerfaust

de-noun

Panzerfaust f (genitive Panzerfaust, plural Panzerfäuste)

Panzerfaust (genitive)
Panzerfäuste (plural)
Panzerfaust (nominative singular)
Panzerfäuste (definite nominative plural)
Panzerfaust (genitive singular)
Panzerfäuste (definite genitive plural)
Panzerfaust (dative singular)
Panzerfäusten (dative definite plural)
Panzerfaust (accusative singular)
Panzerfäuste (accusative definite plural)

From Panzer (“tank, armor”) + Faust (“fist”).

(military) Panzerfaust (type of anti-tank grenade launcher developed in WWII, now usually the Panzerfaust 3)


Kessel

Kessel m (strong, genitive Kessels, plural Kessel, diminutive Kesselchen n)

Kessels (genitive)
Kessel (plural)
Kesselchen (diminutive neuter)
Kessel (nominative singular)
Kessel (definite nominative plural)
Kessels (genitive singular)
Kessel (definite genitive plural)
Kessel (dative singular)
Kesseln (dative definite plural)
Kessel (accusative singular)
Kessel (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German kezzel, from Old High German kezzil, from Proto-West Germanic *katil (“kettle”).

der Kessel von Stalingrad

the encirclement at Stalingrad / the siege of Stalingrad

(military, hunting) an area in which the enemy (or game) is encircled; a pocket or besieged area (by extension also the siege itself)


tango

From translingual Tango (representing the letter T), from English tango (see above).

Tango down!

The two tangoes running toward the carnage at the prison door dropped simultaneously, dead in their tracks.

2005, Charles W. Sasser, Detachment Delta: Operation Aces Wild, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370:

The sharp crack of breaking glass preceded Emily's calm voice. "One tango dead and Marcus is down, John."

2017, Beth Rhodes, Strike Zone, →ISBN, page 210:

(US, law enforcement, military slang) A target; an enemy.


habena

la-noun

habēna f (genitive habēnae); first declension

habēna (canonical feminine)
habēnae (genitive)
habēna (nominative singular)
habēnae (nominative plural)
habēnae (genitive singular)
habēnārum (genitive plural)
habēnae (dative singular)
habēnīs (dative plural)
habēnam (accusative singular)
habēnās (accusative plural)
habēnā (ablative singular)
habēnīs (ablative plural)
habēna (singular vocative)
habēnae (plural vocative)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *aβuɨn (see there for further descendants)


ricochet

/ˈɹɪk.ə.ʃeɪ/

/ˈɹɪk.ə.ʃɛt/

Borrowed from French ricochet, of uncertain origin.

(military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.


ricochet

en-verb

ricochet (third-person singular simple present ricochets, present participle ricocheting or ricochetting, simple past and past participle ricocheted or ricochetted)

ricochets (present singular third-person)
ricocheting (participle present)
ricochetting (participle present)
ricocheted (participle past)
ricocheted (past)
ricochetted (participle past)
ricochetted (past)

/ˈɹɪk.ə.ʃeɪ/

/ˈɹɪk.ə.ʃɛt/

(military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.


regiment

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪmənt/

From Middle French regement, régiment, and its source, Late Latin regimentum (“direction for government; course of medical treatment”), from Latin regō (“rule”).

der

It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment.

1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter III, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 65:

As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.

2005 April 28, Nicholas Watt, Michael White, The Guardian:

(military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions.


regiment

regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment or regimenter, definite plural regimenta or regimentene)

regimentet (definite singular)
regiment (indefinite plural)
regimenter (indefinite plural)
regimenta (definite plural)
regimentene (definite plural)


regiment

regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment, definite plural regimenta)

regimentet (definite singular)
regiment (indefinite plural)
regimenta (definite plural)


regiment

regiment (nominative singular)
regimenty (nominative plural)
regimentu (genitive singular)
regimentów (genitive plural)
regimentowi (dative singular)
regimentom (dative plural)
regiment (accusative singular)
regimenty (accusative plural)
regimentem (instrumental singular)
regimentami (instrumental plural)
regimencie (locative singular)
regimentach (locative plural)
regimencie (singular vocative)
regimenty (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin regimentum.

lbor

(historical, military) regiment (infantry or cavalry regiment in foreign armies in Poland in the 17th and 18th centuries)


mousetrap

en-noun

mousetrap (countable and uncountable, plural mousetraps)

mousetraps (plural)
mouse trap (alternative)

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From Middle English mouse-trappe, mous trappe, mouse trape, equivalent to mouse + trap. Cognate with Dutch muizetrap, muizentrap (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muustrappe, Muustrapp (“mousetrap”). In the Internet sense, refers to a computer mouse.

Besides depth charges, they were armed with smaller forward firing antisubmarine rocket launchers called mousetraps. Fired in groups, these rockets detonated when they contacted a submarine.

2003, Nautical Research Journal, volume 48, page 199:

(military, historical) An antisubmarine rocket used mainly during World War II by the US Navy and US Coast Guard.


boomer

Distant contact, probably submerged. It's a wild guess, but I'd say we hit a boomer coming out of the barn. Could be a missile boat out of Polijarny.

(US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.


Gitmo

From GTMO (Guantanamo), pronounced as if it were a word rather than letter by letter.

(informal, military) Guantanamo Bay, the US naval base at the eponymous location, on the island of Cuba.


drum

Perhaps back-formation from drumslade (“drummer”), from Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (Dutch slag).
Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”) et al. Compare also Middle High German trumme, trumbe (“drum”), Old High German trumba (“trumpet”).


rear

From Middle English rere, from Anglo-Norman rere, ultimately from Latin retro. Compare arrear. Doublet of retro.

задник

the posterior, butt(ocks)- only terms with directional notion

When the fierce Foe hung on our brok'n Rear

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 78:

(military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.


corner

→ German: Corner

→ Japanese: コーナー (kōnā)

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

nurkka

business: interest that is sufficient for price manipulation

(heading) Relating to the playing field.

(boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.

(boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.


officer

→ Central Dusun: upisor

→ Punjabi: ਅਫ਼ਸਰ (afasar)

→ Swahili: afisa

From Middle English officer, from Anglo-Norman officer, officier, from Old French officer, Late Latin officiarius (“official”), from Latin officium (“office”) + -ārius (“-er”). By surface analysis, office + -er.

en:a contraction of the term "commissioned officer"

(colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.


strip

en-noun

strip (countable and uncountable, plural strips)

Brill Publishers
en:strip (disambiguation)

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

(fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.


defense

defense (countable and uncountable, plural defenses)

defenses (plural)
defence (alternative British)

From Middle English defens, defense, from Old French defens, defense, from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“protection”). Displaced native Old English bewering. The verb is from the noun.

obrana

argument in support or justification of something

Department of Defense

(government, military, euphemistic) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.


corridor

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Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).

(military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.


cutter

→ Catalan: cúter

→ Korean: 커터 (keoteo)

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

(wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.


woods

(military, attributive) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).


bomber

As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.

2020 March 7, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, “History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it”, in CNN:

B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have highlighted as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh an impressive 30,000 pounds each.

2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN:

(aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.

chidí naatʼáʼiʼtsoh beeʼeldǫǫh bikǫʼ neiyéhé


beset

af-verb

beset (present beset, present participle besettende, past participle beset)

beset (present)
besettende (participle present)
beset (participle past)

From Dutch bezetten, from Middle Dutch besetten, from Old Dutch *bisetten, from Proto-Germanic *bisatjaną.

(transitive, military) to occupy militarily


tertiary

English numerals#Ordinal numbers
Lay Carmelites
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Saint-Étienne Cathedral
University of Cambridge

/ˈtɜː.ʃə.ɹiː/

/ˈtɜː.ʃə.ɹiː/

PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from the Latin tertiārius (“of the third part or rank”), from tertius (“third”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós, whence English third) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French tertiaire.

bor

A gigaton-scale weapon would of necessity be a three-stage design (incorporating a fusion tertiary - likely with its own massive fission tamper - in addition to the fission primary and fission-jacketed fusion secondary), as a reasonably-sized primary would likely have difficulty imploding to ignition the enormous secondary that would be required to reach a one-gigaton yield with a two-stage thermonuclear.

thermonuclear weapon
thermonuclear weapon

(military) A large stage in some extremely powerful thermonuclear weapons (resembling a greatly-enlarged secondary) which is compressed by the explosion of the secondary until ignition of nuclear fusion takes place, in much the same manner as the secondary is imploded by the primary, and which can allow for the attainment of yields of many tens or even hundreds of megatons, and likely even greater; not used in modern weapons due to a greater focus on the accurate use of sub-megaton weapons, the tremendous size of weapons incorporating a tertiary, and the lack of targets whose destruction would necessitate the use of a three-stage weapon.


basic

The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.

When I shipped out for basic, the Orbital Defense Grid was all theory and politics.

2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Armory:


bunker

→ Catalan: búnquer

desctree

→ German: Bunker
→ Polish: bunkier
→ Romanian: buncăr

The origin of the noun is uncertain; the earliest sense is sense 6.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from Scots bunker (“bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”), from Early Scots bunker, bunkur, bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), probably from Old Norse bunki (“a heap”) (probably whence bunk (“sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”) or *bʰeg- (“to billow, swell; to arch, bend, curve (?)”). Compare Middle Low German bunge (“drum, container”), Middle High German bunge (“drum”). Sense 1 (“hardened shelter designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks”) was derived from German Bunker during World War II, which was itself from bunker (“large bin or container for storing coal”) (sense 5).
The verb is derived from the noun.

cog

(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.


bunker

bunkêr (canonical)
bunker-bunker (plural)
bungker (alternative)
bangker (alternative)
banker (alternative)

From Dutch bunker, from English bunker, from German Bunker.

(military) a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks


bunker

Unadapted borrowing from English bunker.


bunker

bunker (indefinite nominative singular)
bunkers (genitive indefinite singular)
bunkern (definite nominative singular)
bunkerns (definite genitive singular)
bunkrar (indefinite nominative plural)
bunkrars (genitive indefinite plural)
bunkrarna (definite nominative plural)
bunkrarnas (definite genitive plural)


blank

en-adj

blank (comparative blanker or more blank, superlative blankest or most blank)

blanker (comparative)
more blank (comparative)
blankest (superlative)
most blank (superlative)

Belizean Creole: blank

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.

cog

The recruits were issued blank rounds for a training exercise.

(military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.


blank

It was an unloaded gun that fired only blanks.

(firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].


miles

la-noun

mīles m or f (genitive mīlitis); third declension

mīles (canonical feminine masculine)
mīlitis (genitive)
mīles (nominative singular)
mīlitēs (nominative plural)
mīlitis (genitive singular)
mīlitum (genitive plural)
mīlitī (dative singular)
mīlitibus (dative plural)
mīlitem (accusative singular)
mīlitēs (accusative plural)
mīlite (ablative singular)
mīlitibus (ablative plural)
mīles (singular vocative)
mīlitēs (plural vocative)
mīlex (alternative)

→ Italian: milite

→ Piedmontese: mìlit

→ Portuguese: mílite

>? Romanian: mire (unlikely)

→ Spanish: mílite

→ Welsh: milwr

Unknown. Possibly of Etruscan origin. The suffix seems similar to that of pedes, eques, veles, comes, but the origin of mīl- is opaque. A connection to mīlia (“thousands”), perhaps as "person going by the thousand(s)", is difficult to confidently motivate semantically.

mīles gregārius


Charlie

en-noun

Charlie (usually uncountable, plural Charlies)

Charlies (plural)
Charley (alternative)
charley (alternative)
charlie (alternative)

I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don't you know? You better stay away from Copperhead Road.

en:Victor Charlie, Viet Cong, or sometimes any enemy

(military slang) The Vietcong (Victor Charlie); (by extension, sometimes) any enemy.


LP

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(military) Abbreviation of listening post.


LP

Jeszcze przez parę lat po wojnie zachował się materialny ślad ich obecności w postaci osady wojennej, zbudowanej w latach 1915–1916 w miejscu postoju Komendy LP, w starym lesie wśród bagien.

2008, Paweł Kosiński, “Legiony to żołnierska nuta”, in Biuletyn IPN, numbers 5–6, Warszawa: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-12, page 53:

For a few years after the war, a material trace of their presence was still preserved in the form of a war settlement, built in 1915–1916 at the site of the PL Headquarters, in an old forest among the marshes.

(military, in the plural) abbreviation of Legiony Polskie, a Polish military formation founded by Józef Piłsudzki


FOC

full operational capability
full operational capability#English

(military) Initialism of full operational capability.


blackjack

blackjack (countable and uncountable, plural blackjacks)

blackjacks (plural)
black jack (alternative)
black-jack (alternative)

→ Polish: blackjack

The pain is sometimes like the dull, heavy thud of being hit with a lead-filled blackjack; other times like a wizard is reaching deep below the skin and ripping muscles, tendons, and nerves.

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 131:

(weaponry) A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered weapon loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings, intended to inflict a blow to the head that renders the victim unconscious with diminished risk of lasting cranial trauma.


cartridge

cartridges (plural)
cartage (alternative)

/ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/

Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.

Cartridge (firearms)
Magnetic tape data storage
cartridge

Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.

1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

(firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.


victual

en-verb

victual (third-person singular simple present victuals, present participle victualing or victualling, simple past and past participle victualed or victualled)

victuals (present singular third-person)
victualing (participle present)
victualling (participle present)
victualed (participle past)
victualed (past)
victualled (participle past)
victualled (past)
victual (infinitive)
victual (first-person present singular)
victualed (first-person past singular)
victualled (first-person past singular)
victual (present second-person singular)
victuallest (present second-person singular)
victualed (past second-person singular)
victualled (past second-person singular)
victuals (present singular third-person)
victualleth (present singular third-person)
victualed (past singular third-person)
victualled (past singular third-person)
victual (plural present)
victualed (past plural)
victualled (past plural)
victual (present subjunctive)
victualed (past subjunctive)
victualled (past subjunctive)
victual (imperative present)
victualing (participle present)
victualling (participle present)
victualed (participle past)
victualled (participle past)
victuall (alternative)
vittle (alternative)

From Middle English vitailen (“to provide (someone, a castle, a ship, etc., or oneself) with supplies of food, drink, or other needs; (figuratively) to load (a ship with troops and materiel); to fortify, nourish”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vitailer, vitailler, and Old French vitailler, victuailler [and other forms], from vitaile, vitaille, victaille (“food, provisions, victuals”) (see further at etymology 1) + -er (a variant of -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs)).

nb...

fetaile, vetaile, vetaille, vetayle, vetele, vitail, vitaile, vitaille, vitale, vitayle, vitaylle, vitel, vitell, vitele, vittail, vittaile, vittall, vitule, vytaile, vytaille, vytale, vytayle, vytaylle, vytel, (Scotland) wittale, wittule, vittale

[T]hy louing voyage / Is but for two moneths victuall’d: […]

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], page 207, column 2:

Spinola [Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Los Balbases] continueth in his trenches before Breda, and victualeth and strengtheneth Breda, which being done, it is thought he will besiege Bergen op Zoom.

1625 July, Walter Yonge, edited by George Roberts, The Diary of Walter Yonge, Esq. […], Written at Colyton and Axminster, Co. Devon, from 1604 to 1628, London: Printed for the Camden Society, by J[ohn] B[oyer] Nichols and Son, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 85:

He victualleth his soldiers during the time they are upon the guard, either about the palace or abroad in the wars: whereas it is contrary in the King's country; for the Cingalese soldiers bear their own expenses.

1681, Robert Knox, “[Nineteen Years’ Captivity in the Kingdom of Conde Uda in the Highlands of Ceylon, […].] Concerning Some Other Nations, and Chiefly European that Now Live in the Island. The Portuguese and Dutch.”, in Edward Arber, compiler, An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature, volume I, London: […] E. Arber, […], published 15 November 1877, →OCLC, part II, stanza XXXIX, page 435:

I could here ſet down the very number of Acres that would bear Bread and Drink, Corn, together with Fleſh, Butter, and Cheeſe, ſufficient to Victual nine Millions of Perſons, as they are Victualled in Ships and regular Families; but I ſhall only ſay in general that 12,000,00. will do it, […]

1683, J. S., “[A Discourse of Trade. […].] That the People and Territories of the King of England are Naturaly as Considerable for Wealth and Strength as Those of France.”, in The Present State of England. Part III. and Part IV. […], London: […] [R. Holt] for William Whitwood, […], →OCLC, part IV, page 59:

It was then, among other proof to the ſame purpoſe, given in evidence by a Virginia merchant, that in March, 1763, he had victualled his ſhips for twenty-four or twenty-five ſhillings the hundred weight of beef, which he conſidered as the ordinary price; […]

1776 March 9, Adam Smith, “Of the Rent of Land”, in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, book I (Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labour, […]), I (Of the Produce of Land which Always Affords Rent), page 189:

These veterans were commissioned to defend the place to the last extremity; and, as due time had been given for preparation, the town was victualled for fifteen months' provisions, and even the crops growing in the vega had been garnered before their prime, to save them from the hands of the enemy.

1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, “War of Granada.—Conquest of Baza.—Submission of El Zagal. 1487–1489.”, in History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. […], 3rd edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt, →OCLC, pages 308–309:

In 1512 an agreement was made between him [Henry VIII] and his admiral, Sir Edward Howard, which affords an interesting view of the manner in which fleets of war were then maintained. […] It was also stipulated that, "forasmuch as our Sovereign lord at his costs and charges victualeth the said army and navy, the said admiral shall therefore reserve for the king the one-half of all gains and winnings of the war,[…]"

1857 March, I. P. W., “Historical Sketches of British Commerce.—No. 3. A.D. 1400–1600.”, in The Sailor’s Magazine, volume 29, number 7, New York, N.Y.: The American Seamen’s Friend Society, […], →OCLC, page 194, column 2:

(transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.

zásobit potravinami

to provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food — see also provision

[Letter from Sir William Drury to Sir William Cecil, 3d April 1568 (Julian calendar).] The Lord Fleming [i.e., John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming], notwithstanding he still victualleth and maketh provision, he hath offered three personages of as great livehood as himself to enter caution and surety unto the [James Stewart, 1st] Earl of Moray, that he shall only hold the place at the devotion and service of the young King, and to no other.

1568 April 13, William Drury, “Containing Matters of State from the Earl of Moray’s Acceptation of the Regency in the Month of August 1567, till the Queen’s Retreat into England in the Month of May 1568”, in Robert Keith, edited by John Parker Lawson, History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Year 1568. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [Alexander Laurie and Co.] for the Spottiswoode Society, published 1845, →OCLC, page 792:

For though we took a little Flower hard by, yet the ſame Guide which told us of that Ship would have conducted us where we might had ſtore of Beef and Maiz: but inſtead thereof we lost both our time and the opportunity of providing our ſelves, and ſo were forced to be victualling when we ſhould have been cruizing off Cape Corrientes in expectation of the Manila Ship.

1697, William Dampier, chapter IX, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 260:

A letter from Lt.-Gen. [John] Burgoyne to Maj.-Gen. [William] Heath, Jan. 24. 1778. […] [T]he fleet was fully victualled for four months, for the whole of the land-army and ſeamen.

1779 March, “America”, in The Scots Magazine; or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, volume XLI (volume , New Series), Edinburgh: […] A. Murray and J. Cochran, →OCLC, pages 143–145:

(intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.


leapfrog

en-verb

leapfrog (third-person singular simple present leapfrogs, present participle leapfrogging, simple past and past participle leapfrogged)

leapfrogs (present singular third-person)
leapfrogging (participle present)
leapfrogged (participle past)
leapfrogged (past)
leap-frog (alternative)

Sam Hood
State Library of New South Wales

In late November and early December, General [William] Rosecrans juggled his units in preparation for the upcoming drive against [Braxton] Bragg. Among the changes, Sill's brigade relinquished its position in the advance of the army as other units leap-frogged south to the head of the army.

2012 December 4, James Genco, “Rosecrans Forges His Army”, in Into the Tornado of War: A History of the Twenty-First Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Bloomington, Ind.: Abbott Press, →ISBN:

(transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.

koukata

military: to advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward


wtf

(military slang, Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Alternative letter-case form of WTF.


flyer

→ Finnish: flaijeri

→ French: flyer

→ German: Flyer

→ Korean: 플라이어 (peullaieo)

→ Portuguese: flyer

From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.

(firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.


lanciarazzi

Verb-object compound, composed of lancia (“to throw; to launch”) + razzi (“rockets”).


razzo

Inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of raggio, radio, and rai, which were respectively inherited from Latin, borrowed from Latin, and borrowed from Occitan.


valet

Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.

der

(professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.

خادمَة

a female performer in professional wrestling


passé

From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)).

bor

(fencing) An attack that passes the target without hitting.


sergeant

sergeants (plural)
serjant (alternative)
sergeaunt (alternative)
serjeant (alternative)

From Middle English sergeant, sergeaunt, serjent, serjaunt, serjawnt, sergant, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem, accusative of serviens (“a servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns (“serving”), present participle of serviō (“serve, be a slave to”). Doublet of servant and servient.
The shift from /vj/ > /dʒ/ was a regular development in Old French. Compare cavea > cage, salvia > sage.
The fish is so called because of its stripes, supposed to resemble a sergeant's insignia of rank.
The pronunciation with /ɑɹ/ is due to a widespread development of Middle English er + consonant (see barn, start etc.). In sergeant, the spelling was standardised in one way, the pronunciation in another (compare clerk, derby in Commonwealth English, further parson vs. person, and varsity vs. university).

(military) A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.


Eid

de-noun

Eid m (strong, genitive Eides or Eids, plural Eide)

Eides (genitive)
Eids (genitive)
Eide (plural)
Eid (nominative singular)
Eide (definite nominative plural)
Eides (genitive singular)
Eids (genitive singular)
Eide (definite genitive plural)
Eid (dative singular)
Eide (dative singular)
Eiden (dative definite plural)
Eid (accusative singular)
Eide (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German eit, from Old High German eid, from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óytos. Compare Dutch eed, English oath, Danish ed.

(especially official, law, politics, military) oath


effective

From French effectif, from Latin effectīvus (“productive; effective”), from efficiō (“I make; I bring about”), equivalent to effect + -ive.

der

The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives, and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men.

1876, Dabney Herndon Maury, Southern Historical Society Papers: Volume 2, Number 4, Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign:


extend

en-verb

extend (third-person singular simple present extends, present participle extending, simple past and past participle extended)

extends (present singular third-person)
extending (participle present)
extended (participle past)
extended (past)

From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“I stretch out”).

Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.

1993, The Leatherneck, volume 76, page xxxvi:

(intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.


uzi

uzis (plural)
UZI (alternative)
Uzi (alternative)


concealment

en-noun

concealment (countable and uncountable, plural concealments)

From Old French concelement (“concealment, secrecy”). By surface analysis, conceal + -ment.

uder

(military) protection from observation or surveillance.


surveillance

en-noun

surveillance (countable and uncountable, plural surveillances)

Unadapted borrowing from French surveillance (“a watching over, overseeing, supervision”), from surveiller (“to watch, oversee”), from sur- (“over”) + veiller (“to watch”), from Middle French, from Old French veillier (“to stay awake”), from Latin vigilāre (“to be watchful”). More at vigilant.

ubor

The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.

2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23:

Cook was making an impassioned plea to end the technology industry’s collection and sale of user data. “This is surveillance,” he continued.

2019 January 31, Ian Bogost, quoting Tim Cook, “Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy”, in The Atlantic:

And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.

2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN:

(military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.


maverick

Named after Texan lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), who refused to brand his cattle. For probable origin and meaning, see Maverick.
The poker noun sense (“a queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em”) may be from the theme song of the US Western television series Maverick (1957–1962), which says of the eponymous protagonist that “[g]amblin’ is his game” and that he is “livin’ on jacks and queens”.

named-after

They had been working for and with each other for a very long period and their tolerance for “mavericks” was very high, especially if these mavericks continued to get promoted.

2013, John T. Kuehn, “The Navy, Treaties, and Innovation”, in Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy, Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 9:

(military) A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person.


quadrato

From Latin quadrātus, from quadrō (“to make square”), from quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.


engineer

→ Burmese: အင်ဂျင်နီယာ (anggyangniya)

→ Hawaiian: ʻenekinia

→ Hindi: इंजीनियर (iñjīniyar)

→ Japanese: エンジニア (enjinia)

desc

အိန်ဂျေန်နဳယျာ

→ Mon: အိန်ဂျေန်နဳယျာ

→ Mon: အိန်ဂျေန်နဳယျာ

→ Persian:

Dari: اِنْجِنِیر (injinīr)

/ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə/

/ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/

/ɪnˈd͡ʒɪnɪjə(ɾ)/

The noun is derived from:
* Middle English enginour (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.; machine designer”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman enginour, engigneour [and other forms], and Middle French and Old French engigneor, engigneour, engignier (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence; architect; carpenter; craftsman; designer; planner; one who deceives or schemes”) (modern French ingénieur), from engin (“contraption, device; machine; invention; creativity, ingenuity; intelligence; deception, ruse, trickery”) + -eor, -or (suffix forming agent nouns); engin is derived from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature; intelligence, natural capacity; ability, skill, talent; (Medieval Latin) engine; machine”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + gignere (the present active infinitive of gignō (“to bear, beget, give birth to; to cause, produce, yield”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth to; to produce”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns); and
* from engine + -er (occupational suffix); and
* from engine + -eer (suffix forming nouns denoting people associated with, concerned with, or engaged in specified activities), possibly modelled after Middle French ingénieur (a variant of Middle French, Old French engigneour; see above), and Italian ingegniere (“engineer”) (obsolete; modern Italian ingegnere).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Medieval Latin, Late Latin ingeniārius (“engineer”)
* Medieval Latin ingeniator (“one constructing or using an engine”)
* Old Occitan engenhador, enginhador
* Portuguese engenhador (obsolete), engenheiro (“engineer”)
* Spanish engeñero (obsolete), ingeniero (“engineer”)

nb...

(Late Middle English) engyner, (Middle English) engineour, enginer, engyneour, engyneor, engynour, yngynore

engineor, enginere, engineur, enginor, enginur

cog

For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], signature [I4], verso:

For it's amusing to have the engineer / Hoisted into the sky with his own explosive, and if I'm lucky / I will dig one yard below their mines, / And blow them towards the Moon: […]

Novv he began another Trade, and became an Ingenor, hauing got eight Fire-brands of hell more to him, onely of purpoſe to ſet our houſe a fire.

1625, Edmund Scot, “A Discourse of Iaua, and of the First English Factorie there, with Diuers Indian, English, and Dutch Occurrents, […]”, in [Samuel] Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, § IIII, page 173:

Cannons vpon their Carriage mounted are, / VVhole Battery Fraunce muſt feele vpon her VValls, / The Engineer prouiding the Petar, / To breake the ſtrong Percullice, and the Balls / Of VVild fire deuis'd to throvv from farre, / To burne to ground their Pallaces and Halls: […]

1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “The Battaile of Agincourt”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 12:

But your Lordships must have heard with astonishment, that, upon points of law, relative to the tenure of lands, instead of producing any law document or authority on the usages and local customs of the country, he has referred to officers in the army, colonels of artillery and engineers, to young gentlemen just come from school, not above three or four years in the country.

1794 May 28, Edmund Burke, “Trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. Wednesday, 28th May 1794. First Day of Reply.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume XV, London: […] [Luke Hansard & Sons] for C[harles] & J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1827, →OCLC, pages 63–64:

And she began praising Hereward's valour, his fame, his eloquence, his skill as a general and engineer; and when he suggested, smiling, that he was an exile and an outlaw, she insisted he was all the fitter from that very fact.

1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “How Earl Godwin’s Widow Came to St. Omer”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 341:

A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.

This is hard welcome, but it was not you, / At whom the fatal enginer did ayme, / My breaſt the levell was, though you the marke, / In which conſpiracie anſwere me Duke, / Is not thy ſoule as guiltie as the Earles?

1599, [Thomas Heywood], “[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086749090&view=1up&seq=121 The Second Part […]]”, in The First and Second Partes of King Edvvard the Fourth. […], London: […] I. W. for Iohn Oxenbridge, […], →OCLC; reprinted Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: The Rosenbach Company, 1922, →OCLC:

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly ſtriking / Sometimes a friend, ſometimes the engineer.

[1633], George Herbert, “The Church-porch”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC, page 9:

An Author who points his ſatyr at a great man, is to be looked upon in the ſame view with the engineer who ſignalized himſelf by this ungenerous practice.

1716 March 6 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 19. Friday, February 24. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC, page 426:

In war he [the poet] is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot … he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew.

1855 July 4, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: [James and Andrew Rome], →OCLC, page v, column 1:

(obsolete) A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.


hyper

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-hyper.wav

Mason of Blencogo was a strong fellow, with no great science or action, and how he disposed of Nichol of Bothel, who was one of the best hypers of the day, puzzled not a few.

1868, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review:


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.

unk

unknown origin

the galleries of the fort

(fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.


cootie

Probably from Malay kutu (“flea, louse”) (and/or Tagalog/Maori). First attested in English in 1917 as British army slang during World War I.

"Tell Rilla I'm glad her war-baby is turning out so well, and tell Susan that I'm fighting a good fight against both Huns and cooties."
"Mrs. Dr. dear," whispered Susan solemnly, "what are cooties?"
Mrs. Blythe whispered back and then said in reply to Susan's horrified ejaculations, "It's always like that in the trenches, Susan."
Susan shook her head and went away in grim silence to re-open a parcel she had sewed up for Jem and slip in a fine tooth comb.

1921, L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside:

Pediculus humanus
Pediculus humanus#Translingual

(dated, British Army military slang or Canada, US, colloquial) A louse (Pediculus humanus).


illegal

Borrowed from French illégal, from Medieval Latin illegalis, from Latin legalis, by surface analysis, il- + legal. In senses relating to immigration, via clipping from illegal alien or illegal immigrant.

Anna Chapman, whose glamorous appearance won her more publicity in the Western media than all the other illegals combined, was so successfully deceived by a US sting operation that she handed over her SVR laptop to an FBI agent posing as a Russian.

2012, Christopher Andrew, ‘Colder War’, Literary Review, number 399:

Traditionally, illegals have been extremely hard for counterintelligence agencies to find, but in a world of biometric data, facial recognition software and open source investigation possibilities, it has become harder for Russia to keep its illegals below the radar.

2022 August 26, Shaun Walker, “Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators”, in The Guardian:

(espionage) A spy operating abroad illegally and under non-official cover, without visible ties to his or her country’s authorities.


Blighty

Corruption of the Hindustani विलायती (vilāytī) / وِلائتی (vilā'iyatī, “foreign”), which is related to Arabic ولاية (wilāyah, “state, province”), whence also, through Turkish, vilayet.
Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained in their Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, published in 1886, that the word was used in the names of several kinds of exotic foreign things, especially those that the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato, विलायती बैंगन (vilāytī baiṅgan, literally “foreign aubergine”), and especially to soda water, which was commonly called विलायती पानी (vilāytī pānī, literally “foreign water”).
Blighty was the inevitable British soldier’s corruption of it. But it only came into common use as a term for Britain at the beginning of the First World War in France about 1915. It turns up in popular songs "There’s a ship that’s bound for Blighty", "We wish we were in Blighty", and "Take me back to dear old Blighty, put me on the train for London town", and in Wilfred Owen's poems, as well as many other places.
The sense of a minor wound comes from attributive use of the noun, as in “a Blighty wound,” “a Blighty one,” 1916.
In modern Australian usage, Old has been added, as in Old Country and Old Dart, as a sentimental reference to Britain.

The ones who did get a good Blighty were returned to England.

Well maybe I'll have luck this time in the shape of a decent little “Blighty” as its^([sic]) the only way out of it for a while.

2010, Y.A. Bennett, Kiss the kids for dad, Don’t forget to write, →ISBN:

"Talk about Blighties——” He lifted his bandaged arm.

2016, Ronald Gurner, Pass Guard at Ypres: A Novel, →ISBN:

(military slang) Synonym of Blighty one.


capitão

pt-noun

capitão m (plural capitães, feminine capitã or (rare) capitoa, feminine plural capitãs or (rare) capitoas)

capitães (plural)
capitã (feminine)
capitoa (feminine rare)
capitãs (feminine plural)
capitoas (feminine plural rare)
capitam (alternative obsolete)
capitaõ (alternative obsolete)

→ Gujarati: કપ્તાન (kaptān)

→ Japanese: カピタン (kapitan)

desctree

→? Malay: kapitan
Indonesian: kapitan
→ Hokkien: 甲必丹 (kap-pit-tan, “captain”).

From Old Galician-Portuguese capitan, capitam, from Genoese Ligurian capitan, from Late Latin capitānus, from capitāneus, or from Latin capitālis.


buc

From Frankish *būk (“belly”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). Compare Spanish buque (“vessel”) and Italian buco (“hole”).


arko

eo-head

arko (accusative singular arkon, plural arkoj, accusative plural arkojn)

arkon (accusative singular)
arkoj (plural)
arkojn (accusative plural)


arko

Borrowed from Esperanto arko, English arc, French arc, German Arkus, Italian arco, Russian а́рка (árka), Spanish arco.

io-bor

(weaponry, archery) alternative form of armarko


measles

Either from Middle Dutch masels (“blood blisters, measels”) or Middle Low German maselen (“red blemishes, measels”), both from Old High German masala (“blood blister, phlegmon”). Doublet of measlings. Cognate with mazer & mase and Middle Low German masele & māsel. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by mesel (“leprous, leper”).

der

measle (alternative)
the measles (alternative)
measels (alternative)

[…] they would prefer having him "die of the measles," as wags at the CIA put it, than be punished by legal means. If there is no convenient way of administering the "measles," they may even favor simply letting him go.

1975, Miles Copeland, Beyond Cloak and Dagger: Inside the CIA, page 204:

Such final solutions, sometimes referred to as termination with extreme prejudice, are known in the CIA as dying of the measles — that is, the death appears to be of natural causes.

1977, Raymond Edward Palmer, The Making of a Spy, page 99:

(US, espionage jargon) A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.


spook

Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”).

cog

From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?

2009 July 24, “Spies like them”, in BBC News Magazine:

The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks.

2012 October 13, “Huawei and ZTE: Put on hold”, in The Economist:

(espionage, slang) An undercover agent, spy, or intelligence analyst.


forces

(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oːɹsɪz

(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oəsɪz


motti

(military) encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment


motti

motti (nominative singular)
motit (nominative plural)
motti (accusative nominative singular)
motit (accusative nominative plural)
motin (accusative genitive singular)
motit (accusative genitive plural)
motin (genitive singular)
mottien (genitive plural)
mottia (partitive singular)
motteja (partitive plural)
motissa (inessive singular)
moteissa (inessive plural)
motista (elative singular)
moteista (elative plural)
mottiin (illative singular)
motteihin (illative plural)
motilla (adessive singular)
moteilla (adessive plural)
motilta (ablative singular)
moteilta (ablative plural)
motille (allative singular)
moteille (allative plural)
mottina (essive singular)
motteina (essive plural)
motiksi (singular translative)
moteiksi (plural translative)
motitta (abessive singular)
moteitta (abessive plural)
motein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
mottini (nominative singular)
mottini (nominative plural)
mottini (accusative nominative singular)
mottini (accusative nominative plural)
mottini (accusative genitive singular)
mottini (accusative genitive plural)
mottini (genitive singular)
mottieni (genitive plural)
mottiani (partitive singular)
mottejani (partitive plural)
motissani (inessive singular)
moteissani (inessive plural)
motistani (elative singular)
moteistani (elative plural)
mottiini (illative singular)
motteihini (illative plural)
motillani (adessive singular)
moteillani (adessive plural)
motiltani (ablative singular)
moteiltani (ablative plural)
motilleni (allative singular)
moteilleni (allative plural)
mottinani (essive singular)
motteinani (essive plural)
motikseni (singular translative)
moteikseni (plural translative)
motittani (abessive singular)
moteittani (abessive plural)
motteineni (comitative plural)
mottisi (nominative singular)
mottisi (nominative plural)
mottisi (accusative nominative singular)
mottisi (accusative nominative plural)
mottisi (accusative genitive singular)
mottisi (accusative genitive plural)
mottisi (genitive singular)
mottiesi (genitive plural)
mottiasi (partitive singular)
mottejasi (partitive plural)
motissasi (inessive singular)
moteissasi (inessive plural)
motistasi (elative singular)
moteistasi (elative plural)
mottiisi (illative singular)
motteihisi (illative plural)
motillasi (adessive singular)
moteillasi (adessive plural)
motiltasi (ablative singular)
moteiltasi (ablative plural)
motillesi (allative singular)
moteillesi (allative plural)
mottinasi (essive singular)
motteinasi (essive plural)
motiksesi (singular translative)
moteiksesi (plural translative)
motittasi (abessive singular)
moteittasi (abessive plural)
motteinesi (comitative plural)
mottimme (nominative singular)
mottimme (nominative plural)
mottimme (accusative nominative singular)
mottimme (accusative nominative plural)
mottimme (accusative genitive singular)
mottimme (accusative genitive plural)
mottimme (genitive singular)
mottiemme (genitive plural)
mottiamme (partitive singular)
mottejamme (partitive plural)
motissamme (inessive singular)
moteissamme (inessive plural)
motistamme (elative singular)
moteistamme (elative plural)
mottiimme (illative singular)
motteihimme (illative plural)
motillamme (adessive singular)
moteillamme (adessive plural)
motiltamme (ablative singular)
moteiltamme (ablative plural)
motillemme (allative singular)
moteillemme (allative plural)
mottinamme (essive singular)
motteinamme (essive plural)
motiksemme (singular translative)
moteiksemme (plural translative)
motittamme (abessive singular)
moteittamme (abessive plural)
motteinemme (comitative plural)
mottinne (nominative singular)
mottinne (nominative plural)
mottinne (accusative nominative singular)
mottinne (accusative nominative plural)
mottinne (accusative genitive singular)
mottinne (accusative genitive plural)
mottinne (genitive singular)
mottienne (genitive plural)
mottianne (partitive singular)
mottejanne (partitive plural)
motissanne (inessive singular)
moteissanne (inessive plural)
motistanne (elative singular)
moteistanne (elative plural)
mottiinne (illative singular)
motteihinne (illative plural)
motillanne (adessive singular)
moteillanne (adessive plural)
motiltanne (ablative singular)
moteiltanne (ablative plural)
motillenne (allative singular)
moteillenne (allative plural)
mottinanne (essive singular)
motteinanne (essive plural)
motiksenne (singular translative)
moteiksenne (plural translative)
motittanne (abessive singular)
moteittanne (abessive plural)
motteinenne (comitative plural)
mottinsa (nominative singular)
mottinsa (nominative plural)
mottinsa (accusative nominative singular)
mottinsa (accusative nominative plural)
mottinsa (accusative genitive singular)
mottinsa (accusative genitive plural)
mottinsa (genitive singular)
mottiensa (genitive plural)
mottiaan (partitive singular)
mottiansa (partitive singular)
mottejaan (partitive plural)
mottejansa (partitive plural)
motissaan (inessive singular)
motissansa (inessive singular)
moteissaan (inessive plural)
moteissansa (inessive plural)
motistaan (elative singular)
motistansa (elative singular)
moteistaan (elative plural)
moteistansa (elative plural)
mottiinsa (illative singular)
motteihinsa (illative plural)
motillaan (adessive singular)
motillansa (adessive singular)
moteillaan (adessive plural)
moteillansa (adessive plural)
motiltaan (ablative singular)
motiltansa (ablative singular)
moteiltaan (ablative plural)
moteiltansa (ablative plural)
motilleen (allative singular)
motillensa (allative singular)
moteilleen (allative plural)
moteillensa (allative plural)
mottinaan (essive singular)
mottinansa (essive singular)
motteinaan (essive plural)
motteinansa (essive plural)
motikseen (singular translative)
motiksensa (singular translative)
moteikseen (plural translative)
moteiksensa (plural translative)
motittaan (abessive singular)
motittansa (abessive singular)
moteittaan (abessive plural)
moteittansa (abessive plural)
motteineen (comitative plural)
motteinensa (comitative plural)

First attested in 1940. Multiple theories:
* Semantic shift from motti (etymology 1), as an analogy comparing a pocket of troops to a lump.
* Semantic shift from motti (etymology 3), comparing a pocket to a stere of firewood to be chopped down.
* A reference to a particular enemy pocket, located on the site of what was initially planned to be a communications base named Motti. Soldiers would have referred to the place by this name, since it would have been a reference all relevant personnel understood at the time, and over time, it became a generic term.


blanka

blanka (nominative singular)
blanki (nominative plural)
blanki (genitive singular)
blanek (genitive plural)
blance (dative singular)
blankom (dative plural)
blankę (accusative singular)
blanki (accusative plural)
blanką (instrumental singular)
blankami (instrumental plural)
blance (locative singular)
blankach (locative plural)
blanko (singular vocative)
blanki (plural vocative)
blank (alternative)

(architecture, military) cop, merlon (any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement)


blinda

Borrowed from French blinde, from German Blende, derived from the verb blenden (“to blind”).


outer

From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.

(military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.


yessir

yessuh (alternative)
yessiree (alternative)
yessirree (alternative)

Japanese: イエッサー (slang)

(informal or military) Used to express assent, especially to a male superior.

نَعَم سَيِّدِي

used to express assent, especially to a superior


laager

From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager and lair.

(military) A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.


uncover

en-verb

uncover (third-person singular simple present uncovers, present participle uncovering, simple past and past participle uncovered)

uncovers (present singular third-person)
uncovering (participle present)
uncovered (participle past)
uncovered (past)

From Middle English uncoveren, equivalent to un- + cover.

(military, transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.


scope

en-noun

scope (countable and uncountable, plural scopes)

→ Irish: scóp

From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.

Coastie yanked her eye away from the night scope when those big lights were caught by it and amplified in intensity. Her entire view had gone white in an instant. “I can't see!” Temporarily blinded, she let touch become her primary sense, dropped the M40, and grabbed her alternate weapon, an M16 with an ACOG day scope that was already registered for the same distance.

2014, Sgt. Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, On Scope: A Sniper Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

(weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.


exuviae

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-exuviae.wav

Learned borrowing from Latin exuviae, from exuō (“cast off, undress”).

(historical, military) Among the Ancient Romans, weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty.


sight radius

sight radius (plural sight radiuses or sight radii)

sight radiuses (plural)
sight radii (plural)

(firearms) The distance between the front and rear sights of a firearm.


lock time

lock times (plural)
lock-time (alternative)

(firearms) The time, usually measured in milliseconds, from when the trigger is pulled until the firing pin strikes the primer.


SMLE

Short Magazine Lee Enfield
w:Short Magazine Lee Enfield

Initialism of Short Magazine Lee Enfield: any of a series of bolt action rifles used by British and Commonwealth forces during the first half of the 20th century, normally made in .303 calibre.


browning

browning (nominative singular)
browningi (nominative plural)
browningu (genitive singular)
browningów (genitive plural)
browningowi (dative singular)
browningom (dative plural)
browning (accusative singular)
browningi (accusative plural)
browningiem (instrumental singular)
browningami (instrumental plural)
browningu (locative singular)
browningach (locative plural)
browningu (singular vocative)
browningi (plural vocative)
brauning (alternative uncommon)

Unadapted borrowing from English Browning, named after American firearm designer John Browning.

named-after

(firearms) any type of semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Browning Arms Company


foxhole

foxholes (plural)
fox-hole (alternative)

From Middle English foxhol, from Old English foxhol, equivalent to fox + hole.

The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes” is absurd. Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.

1962, Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880-1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry, Columbia University Press, page 378:

Four pilots from the St. Lo, returning from a strike, land at the Dulag Airstrip and are promptly handed carbines, given a foxhole, and told to help repel a Japanese infantry counterattack. With that job done, with the aid of some stacked boxes and buckets full of petrol, they rearm and repair their aircraft, and then head back out to land on other ships.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 36:27 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

(military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.


lines

(fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.


peep sight

(firearms) On some rifles, a type of sight where the shooter looks through a small aperture on the rear sight.


Damascus barrel

en-noun

Damascus barrel (plural Damascus barrels)

(firearms) A gun barrel formed by twisting and welding strips of metal around a hard die; no longer commonly used now due to its inability to handle high cartridge pressure on modern ammunition.


ĉano

eo-head

ĉano (accusative singular ĉanon, plural ĉanoj, accusative plural ĉanojn)

ĉanon (accusative singular)
ĉanoj (plural)
ĉanojn (accusative plural)


plebe

From Latin plēbs (“the plebeian class”), probably via Middle French plebe (“plebeians, commoners, the rabble”) and possibly later understood as a clipping of plebeian. Cognate with Italian plebe, Spanish plebe, Portuguese plebe.

der

My drill master, a young stripling, told me I was not so ‘gross’ as most other pleibs, the name of all new cadets.

1834 October, Military & Naval Magazine, page 85:

"But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
"If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."

1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point, page 84:

Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized.

2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, page 8:

“You went to The Citadel?” her mother chimed in. “I’ve heard so many great things about that institution. Did you go through a plebe year?” I told her I did and that we called it the knob year because freshman cadets had to shave their heads bald to resemble the butt end of a door knob and keep it that way for an entire ten months while going through the process of being broken down, only to be built back up.

2018 October 26, Joe Crochet, My Winning Seasons: Discovering the Champion Within, page 3:

(US, military, slang) A freshman cadet at a military academy.


palla

From Medieval Latin balla, palla, bala, from Frankish *ballu, from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”).
Alternatively, via Lombardic *palla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, from the same ultimate origin. Compare Sicilian baḍḍa.


separation

en-noun

separation (countable and uncountable, plural separations)

/ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

/ˌsep.əˈɹæɪ.ʃən/

Attested in the 15th Century C.E.; from Middle English separacioun, from Old French separacion, from Latin separatio, separationem. Morphologically separate + -ion.

(military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.


taps

From tap (noun) + -s. Sense 1 (“signal for extinguishing all lights in soldiers’ quarters and retiring to bed”) is from the fact that the signal was originally made using a drum.

(military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo; the signal is sometimes also given during the funeral of a soldier.


missile

From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.

bor

That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.

(military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from 20th c.]


hull-down

(military) Of a tank: stopped with its hull protected by ground to the front, so that its occupants or weapons have a line of sight forward.


riservista

it-noun

riservista m or f by sense (masculine plural riservisti, feminine plural riserviste)

riservisti (masculine plural)
riserviste (feminine plural)


ville

The fighting holes and trenches scattered in and around each ville indicate battle after battle - some only planned, others fought. We move toward a tree-lined ville.

1989, Ernest Spencer, Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet, page 247:

On Halloween, this real hot spooky night, the dude paints up his body all different colors and puts on this weird mask and hikes over to a ville and goes trick-or-treating almost stark naked, just boots and balls and an M-16.

1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried:

(US, military, historical) A Vietnamese village.


crew-served weapon

en-noun

crew-served weapon (plural crew-served weapons)

A heavy machine gun, anti-materiel rifle, or rocket launcher might be a crew-served weapon.

(military, notably USMC) Any weapon system that requires a crew or more than one individual to function due to its high operational complexity.


Vulcan cannon

Originally coined by General Electric for their electric gatling guns.

(military, slang) Any electric Gatling gun.


Judy

(military) Aircrew has radar/visual contact on the correct target, has taken control of the intercept, and only requires situation awareness information.


thermonuclear

thermonuclears (plural)
thermo-nuclear (alternative)

China detonated her first thermonuclear in June 1967.


CP

CP (countable and uncountable, plural CPs)


forma

→? Bengali: ফরম (phorom), ফর্ম (phormo)

→ Gujarati: ફરમો (pharmo)

⇒ Marathi: एकफरमा (ekpharmā)

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrma. Doublet of etymology 2, which was inherited.

(military) formation (alignment of troops)


gunfire

gunfire (usually uncountable, plural gunfires)

Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.

(chiefly military) The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.

Art. 33. All Plying boats, with the exception of two which are to be weekly appoin[t]ed by the Chief Commissary of Police and Harbour Master, and at gunfire in the evening to be placed in a tier alongside of the Quay or at a place to be pointed out by these Officers and fastened by a claim and a padlock, the key of which is to be kept by the Porter on duty or by the Police Guard who is to release them at gunfire in the morning.

1851, W. Draper Bolton, Bolton's Mauritius almanac, and official directory:

The grand event on the 14th was the shooting for the second stage for the Queen's prize. This commenced punctually at gunfire in the morning : the men being divided into four squads at the long ranges on the north side of the common.

1864, Edmund Burke, editor, The Annual Register; A review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1863:

(military) The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.

鳴炮時間 /鸣炮时间

They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.

(army slang) Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.


GFE

GFE (countable and uncountable, plural GFEs)

(Google): Introduced by sex columnist Dan Savage.

(US, military) Initialism of government-furnished equipment: equipment in the possession of or acquired directly by the government, and subsequently delivered to or otherwise made available to the contractor.