judoka

judoka (nominative singular)
judokat (nominative plural)
judoka (accusative nominative singular)
judokat (accusative nominative plural)
judokan (accusative genitive singular)
judokat (accusative genitive plural)
judokan (genitive singular)
judokien (genitive plural)
judokoiden (genitive plural)
judokoitten (genitive plural)
judokojen (genitive plural rare)
judokain (genitive plural rare)
judokaa (partitive singular)
judokia (partitive plural)
judokoita (partitive plural)
judokoja (partitive plural rare)
judokassa (inessive singular)
judokoissa (inessive plural)
judokissa (inessive plural)
judokasta (elative singular)
judokoista (elative plural)
judokista (elative plural)
judokaan (illative singular)
judokiin (illative plural)
judokoihin (illative plural)
judokalla (adessive singular)
judokoilla (adessive plural)
judokilla (adessive plural)
judokalta (ablative singular)
judokoilta (ablative plural)
judokilta (ablative plural)
judokalle (allative singular)
judokoille (allative plural)
judokille (allative plural)
judokana (essive singular)
judokoina (essive plural)
judokina (essive plural)
judokaksi (singular translative)
judokoiksi (plural translative)
judokiksi (plural translative)
judokatta (abessive singular)
judokoitta (abessive plural)
judokitta (abessive plural)
judokoin (instructive plural)
judokin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
judokani (nominative singular)
judokani (nominative plural)
judokani (accusative nominative singular)
judokani (accusative nominative plural)
judokani (accusative genitive singular)
judokani (accusative genitive plural)
judokani (genitive singular)
judokieni (genitive plural)
judokoideni (genitive plural)
judokoitteni (genitive plural)
judokojeni (genitive plural rare)
judokaini (genitive plural rare)
judokaani (partitive singular)
judokiani (partitive plural)
judokoitani (partitive plural)
judokojani (partitive plural rare)
judokassani (inessive singular)
judokoissani (inessive plural)
judokissani (inessive plural)
judokastani (elative singular)
judokoistani (elative plural)
judokistani (elative plural)
judokaani (illative singular)
judokiini (illative plural)
judokoihini (illative plural)
judokallani (adessive singular)
judokoillani (adessive plural)
judokillani (adessive plural)
judokaltani (ablative singular)
judokoiltani (ablative plural)
judokiltani (ablative plural)
judokalleni (allative singular)
judokoilleni (allative plural)
judokilleni (allative plural)
judokanani (essive singular)
judokoinani (essive plural)
judokinani (essive plural)
judokakseni (singular translative)
judokoikseni (plural translative)
judokikseni (plural translative)
judokattani (abessive singular)
judokoittani (abessive plural)
judokittani (abessive plural)
judokoineni (comitative plural)
judokineni (comitative plural)
judokasi (nominative singular)
judokasi (nominative plural)
judokasi (accusative nominative singular)
judokasi (accusative nominative plural)
judokasi (accusative genitive singular)
judokasi (accusative genitive plural)
judokasi (genitive singular)
judokiesi (genitive plural)
judokoidesi (genitive plural)
judokoittesi (genitive plural)
judokojesi (genitive plural rare)
judokaisi (genitive plural rare)
judokaasi (partitive singular)
judokiasi (partitive plural)
judokoitasi (partitive plural)
judokojasi (partitive plural rare)
judokassasi (inessive singular)
judokoissasi (inessive plural)
judokissasi (inessive plural)
judokastasi (elative singular)
judokoistasi (elative plural)
judokistasi (elative plural)
judokaasi (illative singular)
judokiisi (illative plural)
judokoihisi (illative plural)
judokallasi (adessive singular)
judokoillasi (adessive plural)
judokillasi (adessive plural)
judokaltasi (ablative singular)
judokoiltasi (ablative plural)
judokiltasi (ablative plural)
judokallesi (allative singular)
judokoillesi (allative plural)
judokillesi (allative plural)
judokanasi (essive singular)
judokoinasi (essive plural)
judokinasi (essive plural)
judokaksesi (singular translative)
judokoiksesi (plural translative)
judokiksesi (plural translative)
judokattasi (abessive singular)
judokoittasi (abessive plural)
judokittasi (abessive plural)
judokoinesi (comitative plural)
judokinesi (comitative plural)
judokamme (nominative singular)
judokamme (nominative plural)
judokamme (accusative nominative singular)
judokamme (accusative nominative plural)
judokamme (accusative genitive singular)
judokamme (accusative genitive plural)
judokamme (genitive singular)
judokiemme (genitive plural)
judokoidemme (genitive plural)
judokoittemme (genitive plural)
judokojemme (genitive plural rare)
judokaimme (genitive plural rare)
judokaamme (partitive singular)
judokiamme (partitive plural)
judokoitamme (partitive plural)
judokojamme (partitive plural rare)
judokassamme (inessive singular)
judokoissamme (inessive plural)
judokissamme (inessive plural)
judokastamme (elative singular)
judokoistamme (elative plural)
judokistamme (elative plural)
judokaamme (illative singular)
judokiimme (illative plural)
judokoihimme (illative plural)
judokallamme (adessive singular)
judokoillamme (adessive plural)
judokillamme (adessive plural)
judokaltamme (ablative singular)
judokoiltamme (ablative plural)
judokiltamme (ablative plural)
judokallemme (allative singular)
judokoillemme (allative plural)
judokillemme (allative plural)
judokanamme (essive singular)
judokoinamme (essive plural)
judokinamme (essive plural)
judokaksemme (singular translative)
judokoiksemme (plural translative)
judokiksemme (plural translative)
judokattamme (abessive singular)
judokoittamme (abessive plural)
judokittamme (abessive plural)
judokoinemme (comitative plural)
judokinemme (comitative plural)
judokanne (nominative singular)
judokanne (nominative plural)
judokanne (accusative nominative singular)
judokanne (accusative nominative plural)
judokanne (accusative genitive singular)
judokanne (accusative genitive plural)
judokanne (genitive singular)
judokienne (genitive plural)
judokoidenne (genitive plural)
judokoittenne (genitive plural)
judokojenne (genitive plural rare)
judokainne (genitive plural rare)
judokaanne (partitive singular)
judokianne (partitive plural)
judokoitanne (partitive plural)
judokojanne (partitive plural rare)
judokassanne (inessive singular)
judokoissanne (inessive plural)
judokissanne (inessive plural)
judokastanne (elative singular)
judokoistanne (elative plural)
judokistanne (elative plural)
judokaanne (illative singular)
judokiinne (illative plural)
judokoihinne (illative plural)
judokallanne (adessive singular)
judokoillanne (adessive plural)
judokillanne (adessive plural)
judokaltanne (ablative singular)
judokoiltanne (ablative plural)
judokiltanne (ablative plural)
judokallenne (allative singular)
judokoillenne (allative plural)
judokillenne (allative plural)
judokananne (essive singular)
judokoinanne (essive plural)
judokinanne (essive plural)
judokaksenne (singular translative)
judokoiksenne (plural translative)
judokiksenne (plural translative)
judokattanne (abessive singular)
judokoittanne (abessive plural)
judokittanne (abessive plural)
judokoinenne (comitative plural)
judokinenne (comitative plural)
judokansa (nominative singular)
judokansa (nominative plural)
judokansa (accusative nominative singular)
judokansa (accusative nominative plural)
judokansa (accusative genitive singular)
judokansa (accusative genitive plural)
judokansa (genitive singular)
judokiensa (genitive plural)
judokoidensa (genitive plural)
judokoittensa (genitive plural)
judokojensa (genitive plural rare)
judokainsa (genitive plural rare)
judokaansa (partitive singular)
judokiaan (partitive plural)
judokoitaan (partitive plural)
judokiansa (partitive plural)
judokoitansa (partitive plural)
judokojaan (partitive plural rare)
judokojansa (partitive plural rare)
judokassaan (inessive singular)
judokassansa (inessive singular)
judokoissaan (inessive plural)
judokissaan (inessive plural)
judokoissansa (inessive plural)
judokissansa (inessive plural)
judokastaan (elative singular)
judokastansa (elative singular)
judokoistaan (elative plural)
judokistaan (elative plural)
judokoistansa (elative plural)
judokistansa (elative plural)
judokaansa (illative singular)
judokiinsa (illative plural)
judokoihinsa (illative plural)
judokallaan (adessive singular)
judokallansa (adessive singular)
judokoillaan (adessive plural)
judokillaan (adessive plural)
judokoillansa (adessive plural)
judokillansa (adessive plural)
judokaltaan (ablative singular)
judokaltansa (ablative singular)
judokoiltaan (ablative plural)
judokiltaan (ablative plural)
judokoiltansa (ablative plural)
judokiltansa (ablative plural)
judokalleen (allative singular)
judokallensa (allative singular)
judokoilleen (allative plural)
judokilleen (allative plural)
judokoillensa (allative plural)
judokillensa (allative plural)
judokanaan (essive singular)
judokanansa (essive singular)
judokoinaan (essive plural)
judokinaan (essive plural)
judokoinansa (essive plural)
judokinansa (essive plural)
judokakseen (singular translative)
judokaksensa (singular translative)
judokoikseen (plural translative)
judokikseen (plural translative)
judokoiksensa (plural translative)
judokiksensa (plural translative)
judokattaan (abessive singular)
judokattansa (abessive singular)
judokoittaan (abessive plural)
judokittaan (abessive plural)
judokoittansa (abessive plural)
judokittansa (abessive plural)
judokoineen (comitative plural)
judokineen (comitative plural)
judokoinensa (comitative plural)
judokinensa (comitative plural)


judoka

fr-noun

judoka m or f by sense (plural judokas, feminine judokate)


judoka

From Japanese 柔道家 (じゅうどうか, jūdōka, “judo practitioner”).

bor

じゅうどうか, jūdōka


judoka

pl-noun

judoka m pers (female equivalent judoczka)

judoczka (feminine)
judoka (nominative singular)
judocy (nominative plural)
judoki (genitive singular)
judoków (genitive plural)
judoce (dative singular)
judokom (dative plural)
judokę (accusative singular)
judoków (accusative plural)
judoką (instrumental singular)
judokami (instrumental plural)
judoce (locative singular)
judokach (locative plural)
judoko (singular vocative)
judocy (plural vocative)
dżudoka (alternative)


vine

From Old French vigne (“siege engine”), from Latin vīnea.


grapevine

grapevines (plural)
grape vine (alternative)
grape-vine (alternative)


grapevine

en-verb

grapevine (third-person singular simple present grapevines, present participle grapevining, simple past and past participle grapevined)

grapevines (present singular third-person)
grapevining (participle present)
grapevined (participle past)
grapevined (past)
grape vine (alternative)
grape-vine (alternative)

From the top he grapevined his leg around Tibbits' leg and planted his elbow in his opponent's opposite side.

2007, Steve Wolfe, Call Us Champions: More Alaska Wrestling Stories:

The Low Mount is the position where your hips are tight to your opponent's and your legs are usually grapevined or locked underneath his.

2008, Saulo Ribeiro, Jiu-Jitsu University:

So now she's grapevined me, I can't straighten my legs, which means I can't generate the momentum I need to bridge.

2022, David Young, Sean Black, The Ground Is My Ocean:

(transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.


(dated, military) Ellipsis of German 88 (“WWII German 88mm anti-aircraft artillery piece”).


dolphin

From Middle English delphyn, from Latin delphīnus, from Ancient Greek δελφίς (delphís), from δελφύς (delphús, “womb”); the modern form in -ol- is probably influenced by the pronunciation of Middle French dauphin. Compare Swedish delfin. Doublet of dauphin. Displaced native Old English mereswīn (literally “sea pig”).

ncog

(military, obsolete) One of the handles above the trunnions by which a gun was lifted.


pocket

→ Japanese: ポケット

→ Welsh: poced

From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Equivalent to poke + -et. Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.

der

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

(military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.

чува́л

military: area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units


flamberge

flamberges (plural)
flamberg (alternative)

The wavy, cutting surface appears in the ‘flamberge,’ to which flame gave a name: it is nowhere better developed than in the beautiful Malay kris (crease). The object seems to be that of increasing the cutting surface.

1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 137:

(weaponry) A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.


fuzzy

Uncertain. Apparently from fuzz + -y, though some sources suggest that fuzz derives from fuzzy. Compare fozy, or Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”).

(slang, military) A soldier with the rank of private.


resident

From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént).

semantic loan

(espionage) Alternative form of rezident.


pagan

(military) to fall victim as collateral damage


slope

en-verb

slope (third-person singular simple present slopes, present participle sloping, simple past and past participle sloped)

slopes (present singular third-person)
sloping (participle present)
sloped (participle past)
sloped (past)

The order was given to "slope arms".

(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.


boxing glove

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boxing glove.wav

(boxing, clothing) A padded mitten, designed to protect the hand while punching, and worn in boxing.


floppy

"Ja, our job is not to think or make decisions. We just here to slay floppies," remarked Koos.

1997, Dick Gledhill, One Commando: Rhodesia's Last Years & the Guerilla^([sic]) War It Never Lost, page 55:

(military slang, Rhodesia, South Africa) An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot.


fizzle

fizzle (third-person singular simple present fizzles, present participle fizzling, simple past and past participle fizzled)

fizzles (present singular third-person)
fizzling (participle present)
fizzled (participle past)
fizzled (past)

Attested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist.
It could also come from old Norse: "fise" simply means "blow," like in "blow in the wind." A weather-exposed community in Rogaland, Norway, is called Fister. (In modern language, the verb "fisle" has the same 3 meanings as in English, see below.)

The shot fizzled, generating only 200 tons rather than the 30 kilotons they were aiming for.

(military, of a nuclear weapon) To fail to generate the expected yield when exploded during testing.


fizzle

(military) Failure of an exploding nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.


כפפת איגרוף

he-noun

כִּפְפַת אִגְרוּף

כפפות איגרוף

כִּפְפוֹת אִגְרוּף

כפפת איגרוף / כִּפְפַת אִגְרוּף • (kiffát igrúf) f (plural indefinite כפפות איגרוף / כִּפְפוֹת אִגְרוּף)

כִּפְפַת אִגְרוּף (canonical)
kiffát igrúf (romanization)
כפפות איגרוף (indefinite plural)
כִּפְפוֹת אִגְרוּף (indefinite plural)
כִּפְפַת אִגְרוּף (alternative)

From כְּפָפָה (kfafá) + איגרוף /אִגְרוּף (igrúf).

af

איגרוף//אִגְרוּף

boxing glove
boxing glove#English:_Q895679


kickboxing

Borrowed from Japanese キックボクシング (kikkubokushingu), from English kick + boxing. Possibly coined by Japanese businessman Osamu Noguchi in 1964.

coinage

kick-boxing (alternative)
kick boxing (alternative)

Ex world’s champion [Georges] Carpentier was also expert at kick-boxing.

1940 August 4, Daily Telegraph, Sydney, page 2:

The Japanese kickboxing gym, recently opened in the Thai capital, had been a great success

1973 March, Black Belt magazine, page 13:

(martial arts) A hybrid martial art derived from Muay Thai, karate, and especially boxing during the 1960s to 1970s; more generally, any stand-up combat sport that combines kicks and punches.


kickboxing

Unadapted borrowing from English kickboxing.

ubor

(martial arts) kickboxing (sport like boxing but allowing strikes with the feet)


Muay Thai

From Thai มวยไทย (muai-tai, “Thai boxing”).

(martial arts) A sport practiced in Thailand which is similar to boxing but also allows strikes with the shins, feet, elbows, and knees.


hip

en-verb

hip (third-person singular simple present hips, present participle hipping, simple past and past participle hipped)

hips (present singular third-person)
hipping (participle present)
hipped (participle past)
hipped (past)

From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit शुप्ति (śúpti, “shoulder”)), from *ḱew- (“to bend”). More at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium.

cog

(wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").


siap

From Malay siap, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *srap (“ready, prepared”) (compare Khmer ស្រាប់ (srap, “ready”) and Vietnamese sắp. Compare to Japanese 気(き)を付(つ)け (kiotsuke, “attention”) and Malay sedia for military command.

der

(military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position


formation

en-noun

formation (countable and uncountable, plural formations)

/fɔːˈmeɪʃən/

/fɔɹˈmeɪʃən/

/foːˈmæɪʃən/

From Middle English formacioun, formation, borrowed from Old French formacion, from Latin fōrmātiō, from fōrmō (“form”, verb); see form as verb.
Morphologically form + -ation

(military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from 18th c.]

تَشْكِيلَة

military: grouping of units under a command

(military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".

تَشْكِيلَة

military: arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft


formation

→ Dutch: formatie

Inherited from Old French formacion, borrowed from Latin fōrmātiōnem. Cf. also the archaic formaison.


rack

en-verb

rack (third-person singular simple present racks, present participle racking, simple past and past participle racked)

racks (present singular third-person)
racking (participle present)
racked (participle past)
racked (past)
rack (infinitive)
rack (first-person present singular)
racked (first-person past singular)
rack (present second-person singular)
rackest (archaic present second-person singular)
racked (past second-person singular)
rackedst (archaic past second-person singular)
racks (present singular third-person)
racketh (archaic present singular third-person)
racked (past singular third-person)
rack (plural present)
racked (past plural)
rack (present subjunctive)
racked (past subjunctive)
rack (imperative present)
racking (participle present)
racked (participle past)

From Old English reċċan (“to stretch out, extend”).

inh

(firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

(firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.


tabor

az-noun

tabor (definite accusative taboru, plural taborlar)

taboru (accusative definite)
taborlar (plural)
tabor (nominative singular)
taborlar (nominative plural)
taboru (accusative definite singular)
taborları (accusative definite plural)
tabora (dative singular)
taborlara (dative plural)
taborda (locative singular)
taborlarda (locative plural)
tabordan (ablative singular)
taborlardan (ablative plural)
taborun (definite genitive singular)
taborların (definite genitive plural)
taborum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
taborlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
taborun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
taborların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
taboru (nominative possessive singular third-person)
taborları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
taborumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
taborlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
taborunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
taborlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
taboru (nominative plural possessive third-person)
taborları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
taborumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
taborlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
taborunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
taborlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
taborunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
taborlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
taborumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
taborlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
taborunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
taborlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
taborunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
taborlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
taboruma (dative first-person possessive singular)
taborlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
taboruna (dative possessive second-person singular)
taborlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
taboruna (dative possessive singular third-person)
taborlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
taborumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
taborlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
taborunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
taborlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
taboruna (dative plural possessive third-person)
taborlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
taborumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
taborlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
taborunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
taborlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
taborunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
taborlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
taborumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
taborlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
taborunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
taborlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
taborunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
taborlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
taborumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
taborlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
taborundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
taborlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
taborundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
taborlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
taborumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
taborlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
taborunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
taborlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
taborundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
taborlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
taborumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
taborlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
taborunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
taborlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
taborunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
taborlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
taborumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
taborlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
taborunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
taborlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
taborunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
taborlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


tabor

pl-noun

tabor m inan (diminutive taborek, related adjective taborowy)

taborek (diminutive)
taborowy (adjective)
tabor (nominative singular)
tabory (nominative plural)
taboru (genitive singular)
taborów (genitive plural)
taborowi (dative singular)
taborom (dative plural)
tabor (accusative singular)
tabory (accusative plural)
taborem (instrumental singular)
taborami (instrumental plural)
taborze (locative singular)
taborach (locative plural)
taborze (singular vocative)
tabory (plural vocative)

(countable, historical, military) wagon fort


ninja

Enter the Ninja
Eric Van Lustbader
Hokusai Manga
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
ninja

A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.

The men... are now learning to be ninja or ‘stealers-in’.

1964, Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice, page 126:

Spies prowled Japan from the seventh century, but the secretive ninja left few written records.

(martial arts) A person trained in ninjutsu, especially (historical) one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.


ninja

ninja (nominative singular)
ninjowie (nominative plural)
ninje (derogatory nominative plural)
ninji (genitive singular)
ninjów (genitive plural)
ninji (dative singular)
ninjom (dative plural)
ninję (accusative singular)
ninjów (accusative plural)
ninje (accusative derogatory plural)
ninją (instrumental singular)
ninjami (instrumental plural)
ninji (locative singular)
ninjach (locative plural)
ninjo (singular vocative)
ninjowie (plural vocative)
ninje (derogatory plural vocative)

(espionage, historical, martial arts) ninja (person trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period)


ninja

(historical, martial arts) ninja (Japanese fighter trained in the art of ninjutsu for activities such as espionage, sabotage or assassination)


ninja

(martial arts, historical) ninja (person trained in stealth, espionage, assassination and ninjutsu)


adjutant

From Latin adiūtō, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”). First attested in 17th century. Or from Latin adiuvāns, present participle of adiuvō, from iuvō (“help”). Doublet of adjuvant.

(military) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.


adjutant

fr-noun

adjutant m (plural adjutants, feminine adjutante)

warrant officer class 1
warrant officer class 1

(military) warrant officer class 1, warrant officer


adjutant

adjutant (indefinite nominative singular)
adjutants (genitive indefinite singular)
adjutanten (definite nominative singular)
adjutantens (definite genitive singular)
adjutanter (indefinite nominative plural)
adjutanters (genitive indefinite plural)
adjutanterna (definite nominative plural)
adjutanternas (definite genitive plural)


meteor

From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron), from μετέωρος (metéōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”).
The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere.

(martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.


mosca

From Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Compare Spanish mosca.

(martial arts) ellipsis of peso mosca (“a flyweight-class fighter”).


mosca

Inherited from Old Spanish mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Compare English midge.


tierce

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.

[W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

(fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.


clout

en-noun

clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)

→ Irish: clabhta

From Middle English clout (“piece of cloth”), from Old English clūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The influence sense originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß, and dialectal Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.

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For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at,
Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:

A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.


roll

en-verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

rolls (present singular third-person)
rolling (participle present)
rolled (participle past)
rolled (past)

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.

rol

to move, or cause to be moved, upon rollers or small wheels

(transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.


laden

de-verb

laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)

lädt (present singular third-person)
lud (past)
geladen (participle past)
lüde (past subjunctive)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
laden (infinitive)
ladend (participle present)
geladen (participle past)
lade (first-person indicative present singular)
laden (first-person indicative plural present)
lade (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
laden (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
lädst (indicative present second-person singular)
ladet (indicative plural present second-person)
ladest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ladet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
lädt (indicative present singular third-person)
laden (indicative plural present third-person)
lade (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
laden (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
lud (first-person indicative preterite singular)
luden (first-person indicative plural preterite)
lüde (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
lüden (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ludest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ludst (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ludet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
lüdest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
lüdet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
lud (indicative preterite singular third-person)
luden (indicative plural preterite third-person)
lüde (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
lüden (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
lad (imperative second-person singular)
lade (imperative second-person singular)
ladet (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe geladen (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben geladen (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe geladen (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben geladen (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast geladen (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt geladen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest geladen (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet geladen (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat geladen (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben geladen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe geladen (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben geladen (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte geladen (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten geladen (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte geladen (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten geladen (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest geladen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet geladen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest geladen (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet geladen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte geladen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten geladen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte geladen (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten geladen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
laden werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde laden (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden laden (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest laden (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet laden (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde laden (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden laden (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde laden (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden laden (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde laden (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden laden (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst laden (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet laden (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest laden (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet laden (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird laden (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden laden (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde laden (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden laden (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
geladen haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde geladen haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden geladen haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde geladen haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden geladen haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde geladen haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden geladen haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst geladen haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet geladen haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird geladen haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden geladen haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

From Middle High German laden (strong verb), from Old High German hladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan. Compare English laden.

(transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)


laden

laad (past singular)
laadt (participle past)
laden (participle past)
hebben (auxiliary)
laden (infinitive)
laad (first-person present singular)
laad (first-person preterite singular)
laadst (present second-person singular)
laadst (preterite second-person singular)
laadt (present singular third-person)
laad (preterite singular third-person)
laadt (plural present)
laden (plural preterite)
laad (imperative singular)
laadt (imperative plural)
laden (participle present)
laadt (participle past)
laden (participle past)

From Middle Low German lāden, from Old Saxon hladan.


charge

en-noun

charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.

Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade

(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

to bring a weapon to the charge

(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.


charge

en-verb

charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)

charges (present singular third-person)
charging (participle present)
charged (participle past)
charged (past)

desc

→ Cantonese: 叉廚 /叉厨 (caa¹ cyu⁴), 叉 (caa¹)

→ Dutch: chargen

→ Kashubian: czardżowac (United States)

→ Malay: caj, cas

→ Sranan Tongo: tyars

→ Swahili: chaji

yükləmək

to place a burden upon, to assign a duty

yükləmək

to load equipment with material required for its use

The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.

My Lord, we haue diſcouered the enemie
Readie to Charge you with a mightie army.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

(intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

(military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.

هَاجَمَ

military: to attack by moving forward quickly


charge

→ Brazilian Portuguese: charge

→ Romanian: șarjă

→ Turkish: şarj, şarz (misspelling)

Inherited from Middle French charge, from Old French charge, carge, equivalent to a deverbal from charger.

une charge massive contre les positions allemandes

a massive charge against the German positions


halecret

halecrets (plural)
allecret (alternative)
hallecret (alternative)

First attested in English in 1536 as halkrig and 1540 as halkrik, taken to be from Middle French halecret, itself first attested in 1488 as aldecrez (plural) and 1489 as hallecretz (plural), of uncertain origin. Compare Breton halacred. Perhaps from Middle Dutch halscleet (“gorget”) (see hals (“neck, throat”), cleet (“piece of clothing”)), or related to German Halskragen.

The halecret was a kind of corcelet of tvvo pieces, one before and one behind, it was lighter than the cuiraſs.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, page 19:

(military, historical) A kind of light armour protecting the bust, used in the 16th century, usually thought to have been a corselet or light cuirass.


zoot suit

zoot suits (plural)
zootsuit (alternative)
zuit suit (alternative)

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Zoot may be a Caló slang pronunciation of suit, thus making the term a tautology and reduplication.

Before his nap, Kaplan had put on all his clothes, including the wool-lined waterproof double-zippered survival suit nicknamed the zoot suit.

2019, Ellin Bessner, Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II:

(UK, military, slang) Synonym of goon suit (“waterproof rubber suit for pilots”).


cannonball

From cannon + ball from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.

A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.

kanonkoeël

An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.


bracer

From Middle English bracer, from Old French braceure; equivalent to brace + -er.

To prevent the bow string from hanging on the left arm, it is covered with a piece of smooth leather, fastened on the outside of the arm, this is called a bracer.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:

(archery) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string.


morris

Another kind of pike called a morris, that is a Moorish pike, was much in fashion about the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 49:


fascine

The noun is borrowed from French fascine (“bundle of kindling; bundle of branches used to build defences, fill in ditches, etc.; logs arranged horizontally between piles on the banks of a watercourse as an erosion barrier”), from Old French faissine, from Latin fascīna (“bundle of sticks”), from fascis (“bundle of sticks, faggot, fascine; bundle, package; burden, load”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“band; bundle”)) + -īna (the nominative, vocative, or ablative feminine singular of -īnus (suffix forming nouns)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

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Our forces being landed and ſtationed as I have already mentioned, ſet about erecting a faſchine battery to cannonade the principal fort of the enemy, and in ſomething more than three vveeks, it vvas ready to open.

1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter XXXII, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 284:

Halberts differ very little from the bill, being like them conſtructed both for puſhing and cutting: a halbert conſiſts of three parts, the ſpear, or ſometimes a kind of ſvvord blade for puſhing, an ax, or hatchet for ſtriking and cutting, and a flook or hook for pulling down faſcines, in the attack of trenches, or temporary fortifications.

1786, Francis Grose, “Morris Pikes”, in A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, pages 51–52:

Verily the man must feel as though he were in a dream; only a short time before, at a shoemaker's ordinary work, the knocking of his hammer mingling with the sighs of a sick wife, and now, fascine knife on hip, helmet on closely cropped head, officers' commands in ear, crowds of people, drums, music, and the shrill whistle of the locomotive!—to march far away to Bohemia; […]

1889, Cornelia McFadden, chapter V, in The Seamstress of Stettin, Cincinnati, Oh.: Curtis & Jennings; New York, N.Y.: Eaton & Mains, →OCLC, pages 141–142:

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(specifically, military fortification) A similar bundle of sticks of wood or plastic pipes used for filling in ditches for armoured fighting vehicles to drive over, and for making parapets, raising batteries, and strengthening ramparts.

фашина

cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood bound together, used for strengthening purposes; (military fortification) similar bundle of sticks of wood or plastic pipes used for filling in ditches for armoured fighting vehicles to drive over, and for making parapets, raising batteries, and strengthening ramparts


mallet

From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”).

The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now in use, except in the length of the handle, it was like the hammer of arms, to be used with both hands, indeed it differed very little from that weapon in its form.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51:

(weaponry) A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.


espada

→ Bengali: ইস্পাত (iśpat) (see there for further descendants)

→ Gujarati: ઇસપાત (isapāt)

→ Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)

Hindi: इस्पात (ispāt)

Urdu: اسپات (ispāt)

→ Japanese: スベタ

→ Maithili:

Devanagari script: इसपात (isᵊpāt)

Tirhuta script: 𑒃𑒮𑒣𑒰𑒞 (isapāta)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espada, through prothesis from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.


espada

Inherited from Old Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of espata.

(fencing) épée (fencing sword of a certain modern type)


spada

spade (plural)
ispada (alternative archaic)

desctree

→ Polish: szpada
→ Russian: шпага (špaga)
→ Romanian: șpagă

From earlier spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē), from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂dʰh₁éh₂, derived from *(s)peh₂- (“to draw”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to put”) + *-eh₂ (feminine noun ending). Doublet of spata.


morning star

en-noun

morning star (countable and uncountable, plural morning stars)

morning stars (plural)
morningstar (alternative)

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From morning + star. Compare West Frisian moarnstjer, Dutch morgenster, German Morgenstern, Swedish morgonstjärna, Icelandic morgunstjarna. Application to Satan derives, like the corresponding sense of Lucifer (which see), from what is probably a misinterpretation of Isaiah 14:12 (NIV: "How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!").

Contrivances like these, except that the balls were armed with spikes, were long carried by the pioneers of the trained bands, or city militia, they are generally called morning stars.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, page 55:

(countable, weaponry) A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, in contrast to a flail.


loot

R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station.

1898, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace & War, page 11:

(US military slang, dated) Clipping of lieutenant.


click

From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.

inside click; outside click; cross click


immediate

en-adj

immediate (comparative more immediate, superlative most immediate)

more immediate (comparative)
most immediate (superlative)

From Old French immediat (French immédiat), borrowed from Late Latin immediātus (“without in-between, moderation”), from Latin in + mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to halve, to be in the middle”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, im- + mediate.

der

Bravo Three, this Bravo Six. Immediate! We are coming under fire from the north from an unknown enemy, over!

(procedure word, military) Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.

Hotel Two-Niner, this is Bravo Six. Immediate suppression at grid November-Kilo four-five-three two-one-five. Danger Close. I authenticate Golf Echo, over.

(procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for two types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).


gloria

gloria (nominative singular)
glorie (nominative plural)
glorii (genitive singular)
glorii (genitive plural)
gloryj (archaic genitive plural)
glorii (dative singular)
gloriom (dative plural)
glorię (accusative singular)
glorie (accusative plural)
glorią (instrumental singular)
gloriami (instrumental plural)
glorii (locative singular)
gloriach (locative plural)
glorio (singular vocative)
glorie (plural vocative)

(literary, military) glory (war victory)


smelly

A comical pronunciation of the initials SMLE.

(firearms, informal) a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives.


bayonet

From French baïonnette, named after the French town of Bayonne, where the plug bayonet was invented.

Fig. 3. Its bayonet, to be fixed by sticking the handle into the muzzle of the musquet.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xvi:

“Well, the proper way to kill a man with a bayonet is this: First you thrust it in under the ribs—here.”

1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 515:

(military) A blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached underbarrel.


bayonet

From Dutch bajonet, from French baïonnette.

(military) a pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired


lance

From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

(military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.

(military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.

Harpune mit Sprenggeschoss

(military) instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordinance


lance

Inherited from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

(military) a lancer (a soldier armed with a lance)


hermaphrodite

From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.

deledash

organism having both male and female gonads

(World War I military, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.


פצצה אטומית

he-noun

פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית

פְּצָצוֹת אָטוֹמִיּוֹת

פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית • (ptsatsá atomít) f (plural indefinite [פְּצָצָה]]_אֲטוֹמִית " lang="he">פְּצָצוֹת אָטוֹמִיּוֹת, no construct forms)

פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית (canonical)
ptsatsá atomít (romanization)
פְּצָצוֹת אָטוֹמִיּוֹת (indefinite plural)

atomic bomb
atomic bomb#English:_Q650051

(countable, military) atomic bomb, A-bomb


bounty

en-noun

bounty (countable and uncountable, plural bounties)

From Middle English bounte (“goodness, virtue; beauty; strength; chivalry, valour; excellence; kindness, mercy; good deed; generosity”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman bounté and Old French bonté, bontet, bunté (modern French bonté (“goodness, kindness”)), from Latin bonitās.

nb...

bonte, bontie, bount, bounte, bountee, bountie, bownte, bunte, bwnte

It was in the army to which bounties were thus given to privates, that the memorialists were officers; and gallant officers the history of that war amply proves they were. If the soldiers of that army and even the heirs of those who volunteered their services for a given and short period, but who were killed or died in service, had such large recognized claims on the bounty of the nation, it is not, [...] easily to be perceived why their officers, [...] have not claims equally strong.

1831 March 1, “[Appendix to the Register of Debates in Congress.] Lands to Officers in the Late War.”, in Register of Debates in Congress, Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Twenty-first Congress: […], volume VII, Washington, D.C.: Printed and published by Gales and Seaton, →OCLC, page cxvii, column 1:

There is, in this case, not a particle of evidence tending even to show that the soldier ever received any bounty or gratuity on account of any or all of his service except $66.66, two-thirds of the amount of bounty payable under the act of July 22, 1861, [...]

1904 March 23, M. W. Miller, “Evidence—Burden of Proof—Joint Resolution July 1, 1902—Practice. Catherine A., Widow of Isaac P. Brown, alias Albert B. Cole.”, in John W. Bixler, editor, Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Appealed Pension and Bounty-land Claims; […], volume XIV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 377:

(countable) A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.

(military, historical) Money paid to a person when becoming a member of the armed forces, or as a reward for some service therein.

prime

money paid to a person when becoming a member of the armed forces, or as a reward for some service therein


clay

en-noun

clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)

soul

antonym(s) of “material of the human body”

From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).
Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.

der

We went shooting clays at the weekend.


octave

From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.

Octave in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

If they always do a lateral parry quarte, and never a semicircular octave, that gives you an opening.

2009, Ray Finkleman, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.


salient

en-adj

salient (comparative more salient, superlative most salient)

more salient (comparative)
most salient (superlative)

The heraldic sense “leaping” and the sense “projecting outward” are borrowed from Latin salientem, the accusative form of saliēns (“springing, leaping”), present participle of saliō (“leap, spring”, verb). The senses “prominent” and “pertinent” are relatively recent, and derive from the phrase salient point, which is a calque of the Latin punctum saliēns, a translation of Aristotle's term for the embryonal heart visible in (opened) eggs, which he thought seemed to move already. Compare also the German calque der springende Punkt.

a salient angle

(often military) Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.


salient

sally

to leap forth; cognate; both of these military terms come from a verb meaning but in different ways

On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.

1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9:

The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.

1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193:

(military) An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.


lag

lag n (definite singular laget, indefinite plural lag, definite plural laga or lagene)

laget (definite singular)
lag (indefinite plural)
laga (definite plural)
lagene (definite plural)

From Old Norse lag (“layer; companionship”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“situation; law”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).

a flock, company, circle of people (united in togetherness, socializing, friendship or common profession)

(military) a squad (smallest division unit of a troop; usually of about ten members)

længre vest er en skumklædt grund, der gav [yachten] det glatte lag

further west is a foam-covered ground that gave [the yacht] the shooting cannons

– Klar ved kanonene der! Gi ham det glatte lag, fyr!

1929, Olaf Benneche, Tordenskjold, page 116:

- Ready for the cannons there! Give him the shooting cannons, fire!

fast aldrig var vi enige, vi gav hinanden tidt det glatte lag

1873, Henrik Ibsen, Kærlighedens komedie, page 137:

though we never agreed, we often gave each other the full truth

da tok sinnet meg, jeg riposterte i anmelderens egen avis og ga ham det glatte lag

1946, Joachim Holst-Jensen, Holst-Jensen ruller opp, page 95:

then the mind took me, I reposted in the reviewer's own newspaper and gave him the honest truth

jeg ga han det glatte lag, spurte om han hadde lært å kjøre drosje i Kardemomme by

I gave him the harsh truth, asked if he had learned to drive a taxi in Cardamom town

gi (noen) det glatte lag

fire all the cannons on one side of the ship at once; bombard someone with harsh truths

(military, nautical) a row of cannons at the same height in the broadside of warships


lag

lag n (definite singular laget, indefinite plural lag, definite plural laga)

laget (definite singular)
lag (indefinite plural)
laga (definite plural)

From Old Norse lag, from Proto-Germanic *lagą.


beryl

pl-noun

beryl m inan (related adjective berylowy)

berylowy (adjective)
beryl (nominative singular)
beryle (nominative plural)
berylu (genitive singular)
beryli (genitive plural)
berylowi (dative singular)
berylom (dative plural)
beryl (accusative singular)
beryle (accusative plural)
berylem (instrumental singular)
berylami (instrumental plural)
berylu (locative singular)
berylach (locative plural)
berylu (singular vocative)
beryle (plural vocative)
berył (alternative Middle Polish)

(colloquial, firearms, countable) FB Beryl


spy

From Middle English spien, aphetic variant of earlier espien (“to espy”), from Old French espier (“to spy”), from Frankish *spehōn (“to spy”), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”). Akin to German spähen (“to spy”), Dutch spieden (“to spy”).
The noun displaced native Old English sċēawere (literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "mirror." In this sense, the verb displaced Old English sċēawian, which was also the word for "to watch" and became the Modern English word show.

ncog

The dead leap at the throat, destroy
The meaning of the day; dark forms
Have scaled your walls, and spies betray
Old secrets to amorphous swarms.

1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

(espionage) A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).


presentation

en-noun

presentation (countable and uncountable, plural presentations)

presentations (plural)
præsentation (alternative)

/ˌpɹɛzənˈteɪʃən/

From Old French presentation (French présentation), from Latin praesentātiōnem, accusative singular of praesentātiō (“representation, exhibition”).
Morphologically present + -ation

(fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent.


repeat

en-verb

repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)

repeats (present singular third-person)
repeating (participle present)
repeated (participle past)
repeated (past)

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).

Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.

Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.

(procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.


parapet

From Middle French parapet, from Italian parapetto.

Obviously if you have only a few days in which to train a soldier, you must teach him the things he will most need; how to take cover, how to advance across open ground, how to mount guards and build a parapet – above all, how to use his weapons.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

(military) A fortification consisting of a wall.


prime

composite

prime element of a mathematical structure

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus.
The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

der

(fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.


return

en-verb

return (third-person singular simple present returns, present participle returning, simple past and past participle returned)

returns (present singular third-person)
returning (participle present)
returned (participle past)
returned (past)
returne (alternative obsolete)
retvrn (alternative Internet)

From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). Compare beturn.

der

(fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.


speedball

en-noun

speedball (countable and uncountable, plural speedballs)

speedballs (plural)
speed ball (alternative)
speed-ball (alternative)

(military, aviation) An improvised adhoc airdrop resupply pack, composed of ammo, food and water, and other supplies, stuffed into a body bag or duffle bag.

(boxing) Synonym of speed bag (“type of punching bag”).


command

command (countable and uncountable, plural commands)

From Middle English commanden, commaunden, comaunden, comanden, from Old French comander, from Late Latin commandāre, from Latin commendāre. Ultimately from Latin com- + mandō (whence ultimately also commend (a doublet), mandate, and recommend), from manus + -dō.
Compare typologically Russian поручи́ть (poručítʹ), поруче́ние (poručénije), руководи́ть (rukovodítʹ), руководи́тель (rukovodítelʹ) related to рука́ (ruká).

I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost. As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command out of the river.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

Filing a complaint against a police officer in New Bedford without the benefit of witnesses is difficult, if not impossible. The police command, from sergeant to chief, is summarily defensive of the actions of police officers.

1977 August 20, David Brill, “Civil Custody Law Harasses New Bedford Gays”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 3:

(military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.


maali

maali (nominative singular)
maalit (nominative plural)
maali (accusative nominative singular)
maalit (accusative nominative plural)
maalin (accusative genitive singular)
maalit (accusative genitive plural)
maalin (genitive singular)
maalien (genitive plural)
maalia (partitive singular)
maaleja (partitive plural)
maalissa (inessive singular)
maaleissa (inessive plural)
maalista (elative singular)
maaleista (elative plural)
maaliin (illative singular)
maaleihin (illative plural)
maalilla (adessive singular)
maaleilla (adessive plural)
maalilta (ablative singular)
maaleilta (ablative plural)
maalille (allative singular)
maaleille (allative plural)
maalina (essive singular)
maaleina (essive plural)
maaliksi (singular translative)
maaleiksi (plural translative)
maalitta (abessive singular)
maaleitta (abessive plural)
maalein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
maalini (nominative singular)
maalini (nominative plural)
maalini (accusative nominative singular)
maalini (accusative nominative plural)
maalini (accusative genitive singular)
maalini (accusative genitive plural)
maalini (genitive singular)
maalieni (genitive plural)
maaliani (partitive singular)
maalejani (partitive plural)
maalissani (inessive singular)
maaleissani (inessive plural)
maalistani (elative singular)
maaleistani (elative plural)
maaliini (illative singular)
maaleihini (illative plural)
maalillani (adessive singular)
maaleillani (adessive plural)
maaliltani (ablative singular)
maaleiltani (ablative plural)
maalilleni (allative singular)
maaleilleni (allative plural)
maalinani (essive singular)
maaleinani (essive plural)
maalikseni (singular translative)
maaleikseni (plural translative)
maalittani (abessive singular)
maaleittani (abessive plural)
maaleineni (comitative plural)
maalisi (nominative singular)
maalisi (nominative plural)
maalisi (accusative nominative singular)
maalisi (accusative nominative plural)
maalisi (accusative genitive singular)
maalisi (accusative genitive plural)
maalisi (genitive singular)
maaliesi (genitive plural)
maaliasi (partitive singular)
maalejasi (partitive plural)
maalissasi (inessive singular)
maaleissasi (inessive plural)
maalistasi (elative singular)
maaleistasi (elative plural)
maaliisi (illative singular)
maaleihisi (illative plural)
maalillasi (adessive singular)
maaleillasi (adessive plural)
maaliltasi (ablative singular)
maaleiltasi (ablative plural)
maalillesi (allative singular)
maaleillesi (allative plural)
maalinasi (essive singular)
maaleinasi (essive plural)
maaliksesi (singular translative)
maaleiksesi (plural translative)
maalittasi (abessive singular)
maaleittasi (abessive plural)
maaleinesi (comitative plural)
maalimme (nominative singular)
maalimme (nominative plural)
maalimme (accusative nominative singular)
maalimme (accusative nominative plural)
maalimme (accusative genitive singular)
maalimme (accusative genitive plural)
maalimme (genitive singular)
maaliemme (genitive plural)
maaliamme (partitive singular)
maalejamme (partitive plural)
maalissamme (inessive singular)
maaleissamme (inessive plural)
maalistamme (elative singular)
maaleistamme (elative plural)
maaliimme (illative singular)
maaleihimme (illative plural)
maalillamme (adessive singular)
maaleillamme (adessive plural)
maaliltamme (ablative singular)
maaleiltamme (ablative plural)
maalillemme (allative singular)
maaleillemme (allative plural)
maalinamme (essive singular)
maaleinamme (essive plural)
maaliksemme (singular translative)
maaleiksemme (plural translative)
maalittamme (abessive singular)
maaleittamme (abessive plural)
maaleinemme (comitative plural)
maalinne (nominative singular)
maalinne (nominative plural)
maalinne (accusative nominative singular)
maalinne (accusative nominative plural)
maalinne (accusative genitive singular)
maalinne (accusative genitive plural)
maalinne (genitive singular)
maalienne (genitive plural)
maalianne (partitive singular)
maalejanne (partitive plural)
maalissanne (inessive singular)
maaleissanne (inessive plural)
maalistanne (elative singular)
maaleistanne (elative plural)
maaliinne (illative singular)
maaleihinne (illative plural)
maalillanne (adessive singular)
maaleillanne (adessive plural)
maaliltanne (ablative singular)
maaleiltanne (ablative plural)
maalillenne (allative singular)
maaleillenne (allative plural)
maalinanne (essive singular)
maaleinanne (essive plural)
maaliksenne (singular translative)
maaleiksenne (plural translative)
maalittanne (abessive singular)
maaleittanne (abessive plural)
maaleinenne (comitative plural)
maalinsa (nominative singular)
maalinsa (nominative plural)
maalinsa (accusative nominative singular)
maalinsa (accusative nominative plural)
maalinsa (accusative genitive singular)
maalinsa (accusative genitive plural)
maalinsa (genitive singular)
maaliensa (genitive plural)
maaliaan (partitive singular)
maaliansa (partitive singular)
maalejaan (partitive plural)
maalejansa (partitive plural)
maalissaan (inessive singular)
maalissansa (inessive singular)
maaleissaan (inessive plural)
maaleissansa (inessive plural)
maalistaan (elative singular)
maalistansa (elative singular)
maaleistaan (elative plural)
maaleistansa (elative plural)
maaliinsa (illative singular)
maaleihinsa (illative plural)
maalillaan (adessive singular)
maalillansa (adessive singular)
maaleillaan (adessive plural)
maaleillansa (adessive plural)
maaliltaan (ablative singular)
maaliltansa (ablative singular)
maaleiltaan (ablative plural)
maaleiltansa (ablative plural)
maalilleen (allative singular)
maalillensa (allative singular)
maaleilleen (allative plural)
maaleillensa (allative plural)
maalinaan (essive singular)
maalinansa (essive singular)
maaleinaan (essive plural)
maaleinansa (essive plural)
maalikseen (singular translative)
maaliksensa (singular translative)
maaleikseen (plural translative)
maaleiksensa (plural translative)
maalittaan (abessive singular)
maalittansa (abessive singular)
maaleittaan (abessive plural)
maaleittansa (abessive plural)
maaleineen (comitative plural)
maaleinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Old Swedish māl (“measure, amount; sign”) (compare Swedish mål (“target; what one aims to hit”)), from both Old Norse mál (“language, speech”) (from Proto-Germanic *maþlą) and Old Norse mál (“size, measurement, time”) (from Proto-Germanic *mēlą).

der

(archery) popinjay (target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage)


kung fu

en-noun

kung fu (countable and uncountable, plural kung fu)

kung fu (plural)
gongfu (alternative)
gong-fu (alternative)
gong fu (alternative)
gungfu (alternative)
gung-fu (alternative)
gung fu (alternative)
kungfu (alternative)
kung-fu (alternative)
Kung Fu (alternative)

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”): kung¹-fu⁵.

bor

Along the way, they meet Master Wong, who teaches them kung fu and imparts nuggets of Chinese philosophy, knowledge and training that they eventually use to defeat their nemesis and save their village.

2021 March 31, Melissa Chen, “Opinion ‘Kung Fu Cavemen’ isn’t racist — just the victim of moral panic by a self-righteous few”, in New York Post:

(martial arts) The Chinese martial arts collectively.


kung fu

Borrowed from English kung fu, from the Wade–Giles romanization (kung¹-fu⁵) of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”).


triage

en-noun

triage (countable and uncountable, plural triages)

From French triage, from trier (“to sort”).

Similarly, any group of sidings is known to army railway personnel as a "triage". This word is derived from the French verb trier, which means literally "to sort," and hence "triage" has become the common army expression for a marshalling yard.

1943 September and October, “Military and Civil Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 257:

(rail transport, military, British) A marshalling yard, classification yard.


passenger

/ˈpæsɪnd͡ʒɚ/

/ˈpæsənd͡ʒɚ/

/ˈpæsɪnd͡ʒə/

/ˈpæsənd͡ʒə/

From Old French passagier with intrusive n (see etymology of messenger).

(military) Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.


gob

Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy.

1918 October 22, Letter of Adlai Stevenson, quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), page 53

If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it. Gobs are always amusing, as you know.

Full-cut, dashing "gob" slacks with back pocket.

1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 94:

1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18,
For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.

1948 June, Fred B. Barton, Mending Broken Gobs, The Rotarian, page 22,
Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that′s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.


willy

(espionage) A person who is manipulated into serving as a useful agent without knowing it.


guardian

→ Japanese: ガーディアン (gādian)

/ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/

From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.

United States Space Force
United States Space Force

(US military) A servicemember of the United States Space Force.


rampant

fr-adj

rampant (feminine rampante, masculine plural rampants, feminine plural rampantes)

rampante (feminine)
rampants (masculine plural)
rampantes (feminine plural)

(military) stranded on the ground as opposed to flying staff


gorge

From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”). Doublet of gour.

cog

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-gorge.wav

Half Moon. An Outwork conſiſting of two Faces, which makes an Angle Salient, the Gorge whereof bends in like a Bow, or Creſcent, and were formerly us'd to cover the Point of a Baſtion, which diſtinguiſhes them from Ravelins, always plac'd before the Curtin; […]

1745, “Half Moon”, in An Introduction to the Art of Fortification. […], London: Printed for and sold by John Brindley, […], →OCLC, column 1:

Ramps lead from the gorges of the bastions down to these outlets into the main ditch. […] To keep open the communication between the bastions, a gallery between their gorges is made along the curtain wall.

1874, D[ennis] H[art] Mahan, “Modifications Proposed in the Bastioned System”, in J. B. Wheeler, editor, An Elementary Course of Permanent Fortification, for the Use of the Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Son, […], →OCLC, paragraph 236, page 127:

Construction on this massive fort was never completed. […] Only the foundations and a few tiers of stone were completed on the two gorge walls and the gorge bastion. At this point, a significant modification in design was made. […] In this way, the gorge of the fort was closed at minimum expense.

2018 June, John R. Weaver II, “New York City”, in A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816–1867, 2nd edition, McLean, Va.: Redoubt Press, McGovern Publishing, →ISBN, page 164, column 1:

(architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.


blind

blinds (plural)
blinde (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.


melee

en-noun

melee (countable and uncountable, plural melees)

melees (plural)
mêlée (alternative)
melée (alternative)

Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley.

Honestly, a lot of what this episode did right had more to do with the scenes that surrounded the enormous melee than those hyper-edited clashes of swords.

2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31:

The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.

2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17:

(especially military, gaming) A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

(military, historical) A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.


salvo

A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).

(military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.


salvo

head

salvo (definite accusative salvoyu, plural salvolar)

salvoyu (accusative definite)
salvolar (plural)
salvo (nominative singular)
salvolar (nominative plural)
salvoyu (accusative definite singular)
salvoları (accusative definite plural)
salvoya (dative singular)
salvolara (dative plural)
salvoda (locative singular)
salvolarda (locative plural)
salvodan (ablative singular)
salvolardan (ablative plural)
salvonun (genitive singular)
salvoların (genitive plural)
salvom (first-person nominative singular)
salvolarım (first-person nominative singular)
salvon (nominative second-person singular)
salvoların (nominative second-person singular)
salvosu (nominative singular third-person)
salvoları (nominative singular third-person)
salvomuz (first-person nominative plural)
salvolarımız (first-person nominative plural)
salvonuz (nominative plural second-person)
salvolarınız (nominative plural second-person)
salvoları (nominative plural third-person)
salvomu (accusative definite first-person singular)
salvolarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
salvonu (accusative definite second-person singular)
salvolarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
salvosunu (accusative definite singular third-person)
salvolarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
salvomuzu (accusative definite first-person plural)
salvolarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
salvonuzu (accusative definite plural second-person)
salvolarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
salvolarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
salvoma (dative first-person singular)
salvolarıma (dative first-person singular)
salvona (dative second-person singular)
salvolarına (dative second-person singular)
salvosuna (dative singular third-person)
salvolarına (dative singular third-person)
salvomuza (dative first-person plural)
salvolarımıza (dative first-person plural)
salvonuza (dative plural second-person)
salvolarınıza (dative plural second-person)
salvolarına (dative plural third-person)
salvomda (first-person locative singular)
salvolarımda (first-person locative singular)
salvonda (locative second-person singular)
salvolarında (locative second-person singular)
salvosunda (locative singular third-person)
salvolarında (locative singular third-person)
salvomuzda (first-person locative plural)
salvolarımızda (first-person locative plural)
salvonuzda (locative plural second-person)
salvolarınızda (locative plural second-person)
salvolarında (locative plural third-person)
salvomdan (ablative first-person singular)
salvolarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
salvondan (ablative second-person singular)
salvolarından (ablative second-person singular)
salvosundan (ablative singular third-person)
salvolarından (ablative singular third-person)
salvomuzdan (ablative first-person plural)
salvolarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
salvonuzdan (ablative plural second-person)
salvolarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
salvolarından (ablative plural third-person)
salvomun (first-person genitive singular)
salvolarımın (first-person genitive singular)
salvonun (genitive second-person singular)
salvolarının (genitive second-person singular)
salvosunun (genitive singular third-person)
salvolarının (genitive singular third-person)
salvomuzun (first-person genitive plural)
salvolarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
salvonuzun (genitive plural second-person)
salvolarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
salvolarının (genitive plural third-person)

Borrowed from Italian salva. Doublet of her.

(military) A barrage of artillery fire, volley, salvo.


Walt

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty

Clipping of Walter. The derogatory British sense is a reference to the fictional character Walter Mitty from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered pushover who has wild fantasies about his life in various daring roles.

You're just a bloody Walt!

(UK, military, derogatory, slang) Someone who impersonates a veteran (retired member of the armed forces).


prosty

prosty (nominative singular)
proste (nominative plural)
prostego (genitive singular)
prostych (genitive plural)
prostemu (dative singular)
prostym (dative plural)
prosty (accusative singular)
proste (accusative plural)
prostym (instrumental singular)
prostymi (instrumental plural)
prostym (locative singular)
prostych (locative plural)
prosty (singular vocative)
proste (plural vocative)

(nominalized, boxing) cross, jab, straight punch


poligon

poligon (nominative singular)
poligony (nominative plural)
poligonu (genitive singular)
poligonów (genitive plural)
poligonowi (dative singular)
poligonom (dative plural)
poligon (accusative singular)
poligony (accusative plural)
poligonem (instrumental singular)
poligonami (instrumental plural)
poligonie (locative singular)
poligonach (locative plural)
poligonie (singular vocative)
poligony (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French polygone, from Ancient Greek πολύγωνον (polúgōnon).


jawohl

→ Istriot: iavòl

From ja (“yes”) with the emphatic wohl placed after it, meaning “it is willed”. Compare Dutch jawel.


RMA

en-noun

RMA (countable and uncountable, plural RMAs)

Several of the recruits had special leadership responsibilities within the Company, the most significant being the Recruit Chief Petty Officer (RCPO) and the Recruit Master at Arms (RMA). […] The person responsible for being RCPO changed during the end of our training, but the RMA, who was responsible for maintaining good order and discipline, did not make it past the mid point.

2013, David Banagis, Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Sailor's Story, Bloomington, IN: Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 12:

(US, military) Initialism of recruit master-at-arms; also RMAA.


baton

(military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.

(weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.


cam

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

(military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))


drib

en-verb

drib (third-person singular simple present dribs, present participle dribbing, simple past and past participle dribbed)

dribs (present singular third-person)
dribbing (participle present)
dribbed (participle past)
dribbed (past)

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).

inh

(transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.

(intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.

Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]

c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 2, page 519:

(transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.


fib

en-verb

fib (third-person singular simple present fibs, present participle fibbing, simple past and past participle fibbed)

fibs (present singular third-person)
fibbing (participle present)
fibbed (participle past)
fibbed (past)

Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse.

1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, published 1788, To Fib:

The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

As Biggs and his party arrived, I heard Hawkins say to Berry, "For heaven’s sake, my boy, fib with your right, and mind his left hand!"

1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 16:

Then there was a wild scuffle and a furious outcry, and all the bargemen for a moment seemed to hug me and themselves too; when, as there was no room to hit out, in the phraseology of the ring, I fibbed at half-a-dozen waistcoats and faces with all my might and main.

1865, Grantley Berkeley, “Eton Boys”, in My Life and Recollections, volume 1, page 311:

Quoth he, "Thou dost surely jest when thou sayest that thou dost not understand such words. Answer me this: Hast thou ever fibbed a chouse quarrons in the Rome pad for the loure in his bung?"

1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part sixth, page 207:

(archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.


fletch

A modification of fledge (“to acquire feathers”) due to the influence of fletcher (“arrow-maker”). Compare flèche.

(archery) The vane toward the back of an arrow, used to stabilise the arrow during flight.


gouge

en-noun

gouge (countable and uncountable, plural gouges)

From Middle English gouge (“chisel with concave blade; gouge”), from Old French gouge, goi (“gouge”), from Late Latin goia, gubia, gulbia (“chisel; piercer”), borrowed from Gaulish *gulbiā, from Proto-Celtic *gulbā, *gulbi, *gulbīnos (“beak, bill”). The English word is cognate with Italian gorbia, gubbia (“ferrule”), Old Breton golb, Old Irish gulba (“beak”), Portuguese goiva, Scottish Gaelic gilb (“chisel”), Spanish gubia (“chisel, gouge”), Welsh gylf (“beak; pointed instrument”), gylyf (“sickle”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

inh

As all naval aviators have learned at one time or another in their careers, “There's plenty of bad gouge out there," and it has, does, and will get the unwary fliers in trouble.

2005, Jay A. Stout, To Be a U.S. Naval Aviator, page 63:

The Marines and “Coasties” (the nickname for Coast Guard students) were reputed to have good gouge on each class's test. Rumor had it that the Marines had inside information on the questions for the next day's FRR test, […]

2013, Douglas Waller, Air Warriors: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot, page 89:

(US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.


hetman

hetman (nominative singular)
hetmani (nominative plural)
hetmany (derogatory nominative plural)
hetmana (genitive singular)
hetmanów (genitive plural)
hetmanowi (dative singular)
hetmanom (dative plural)
hetmana (accusative singular)
hetmanów (accusative plural)
hetmanem (instrumental singular)
hetmanami (instrumental plural)
hetmanie (locative singular)
hetmanach (locative plural)
hetmanie (singular vocative)
hetmani (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: ге́тман (hjétman)

→ Bulgarian: хе́тман (hétman)

→ English: hetman

→ French: hetman

→ German: Hetman

→ Portuguese: hétmã, hétmane

→ Romanian: hatman

→ Ukrainian: ге́тьман (hétʹman)

desctree

→ Russian: ге́тман (gétman)
→ Uzbek: getman

→ Spanish: hetman

Borrowed from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman, from houbet, heupt. Compare German Hauptmann. The e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-.

bor+

(historical, military) Cossack military commander

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

(historical, military) title used by the senior military commanders in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (15th to 18th century)

(Middle Polish, military) any sort of military leader


junta

junta (nominative singular)
junty (nominative plural)
junty (genitive singular)
junt (genitive plural)
juncie (dative singular)
juntom (dative plural)
juntę (accusative singular)
junty (accusative plural)
juntą (instrumental singular)
juntami (instrumental plural)
juncie (locative singular)
juntach (locative plural)
junto (singular vocative)
junty (plural vocative)

(military) junta (ruling council of a military dictatorship)


kern

head

kern m (genitive singular kern, plural kernyn)

kern (genitive singular)
kernyn (plural)
kern
chern
gern

From Middle Irish ceithern (“band or troop of soldiers or fighting men”).


mire

Borrowed from Italian mira, from Latin mīrō (“to wonder at”).

(weaponry) aim (action of aiming) [from 1562]


nape

RHAH: They got through Alpha Company! Anything behind you don't identify itself, blow it away. Two - air strike's coming in. They gonna lay snake and nape right on the perimeter so stay tight in your holes and don't leave 'em.

1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (film script)


nape

en-verb

nape (third-person singular simple present napes, present participle naping, simple past and past participle naped)

napes (present singular third-person)
naping (participle present)
naped (participle past)
naped (past)

(transitive, military, slang) To bombard with napalm.


piker

From pike + -er. In some senses, it has been linked etymologically to the word pikey as well as to Pike County in eastern Missouri https://web.archive.org/web/20051111194645/http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/p/p0300200.html. In the latter instance the term originally denoted poor immigrants to California.

Upstairs in a waiting room there were pikers whose tunics echoed Baudricourt′s gold lion shield painted up and down the rafters.

1974, Thomas Keneally, Blood Red, Sister Rose, page 82:

By 1600, the ratio of pikers to gunmen was roughly 3:2. By mid-century the ratio was only 1:2, and by 1670 there was just one piker to every three gunmen in the French Army.

2008, Cathal J. Nolan, Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization, page 363:

(military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.


pluton

plutoane (plural)
pluton (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
plutonul (accusative definite nominative singular)
plutoane (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
plutoanele (accusative definite nominative plural)
pluton (indefinite singular)
plutonului (definite singular)
plutoane (indefinite plural)
plutoanelor (definite plural)
plutonule (singular vocative)
plutoanelor (plural vocative)
ploton (alternative)

Borrowed from French peloton, partially through the intermediary Polish ploton. Compare Italian plotone, Spanish pelotón.


pluton

pluton (indefinite nominative singular)
plutons (genitive indefinite singular)
plutonen (definite nominative singular)
plutonens (definite genitive singular)
plutoner (indefinite nominative plural)
plutoners (genitive indefinite plural)
plutonerna (definite nominative plural)
plutonernas (definite genitive plural)


raj

rajok (plural)
raj (nominative singular)
rajok (nominative plural)
rajt (accusative singular)
rajokat (accusative plural)
rajnak (dative singular)
rajoknak (dative plural)
rajjal (instrumental singular)
rajokkal (instrumental plural)
rajért (causal-final singular)
rajokért (causal-final plural)
rajjá (singular translative)
rajokká (plural translative)
rajig (singular terminative)
rajokig (plural terminative)
rajként (essive-formal singular)
rajokként (essive-formal plural)
rajban (inessive singular)
rajokban (inessive plural)
rajon (singular superessive)
rajokon (plural superessive)
rajnál (adessive singular)
rajoknál (adessive plural)
rajba (illative singular)
rajokba (illative plural)
rajra (singular sublative)
rajokra (plural sublative)
rajhoz (allative singular)
rajokhoz (allative plural)
rajból (elative singular)
rajokból (elative plural)
rajról (delative singular)
rajokról (delative plural)
rajtól (ablative singular)
rajoktól (ablative plural)
rajé (singular)
rajoké (plural)
rajéi (singular)
rajokéi (plural)
rajom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
rajaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
rajod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
rajaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
raja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
rajai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
rajunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
rajaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
rajotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
rajaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
rajuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
rajaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian roj. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *rojь.

(military) squad, section, squadron (with approx. 13 people)

tűzcsoport < raj < szakasz < század < zászlóalj < ezred < dandár < hadosztály < hadtest < hadsereg < hadseregcsoport < front


rep

en-noun

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

[…] and Henry Riser is still waiting for official casualty reps and family info on Doug Wheless.

1993, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly, volumes 52, issues 1-3, page 149:

A shell report, or "shell rep," was supposed to be sent in by any man who witnessed the fall of enemy artillery fire.

1996, Don Congdon, Combat World War II, volume 1, page 531:

(military, in combination) Clipping of report.


rick

No turning back now rick, you are the property of the US government now.

(military, derogatory and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.


ruff

I also used quite a few of the flat-fingered kind of ruff (as used before on the doumbek in the baladi section) to embellish some notes.

2003, Rob Lewis, “3 Camps: Rudimental Drum Solo”, in Crosstraining: A Method for Applying Rhythms and Techniques to Drum Set, Hand Percussion and Mallet Instruments, Pacific, Mo.: Mel Bay Productions, →ISBN, part 6 (Rudiments and Rudimental Solos), page 71:

(music, often military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.