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targeteer Obs. exc. Hist.|tɑːgɪˈtɪə(r)|
Also 6–7 targe(t)tier, 7 targatier, -tyer, targuattier, targue(t)tier, targueteere.
[prob. ad. It. targhettiere (Florio), f. targhetta target: see -eer1.]
A foot-soldier armed with a target; a peltast.
1586–8in Hakluyt Voy. (1600) III. 812 Our General himselfe with certaine shot and some targettiers went ouer into the maine. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, iii. ii, A band of bow-men and of pikes, Brown bills and targeteers, four hundred strong. 1600Holland Livy xxviii. v. 670 A thousand targuattiers called Peltati. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 18 He [Chas. VII of France]..adioined to them Targatiers, Harbengers, Mustermasters. 1676Hobbes Iliad 53 He found him out With many targetiers environed. 1824Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 176 The targeteers of Iphicrates. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 147 The Chalcidian hoplites..were assisted by a few targeteers. |