grenadiern.²

/ɡrɛnəˈdɪə/

Forms: 1600s grenadeer, ( granatier), 1600s–1700s granadeer, granadier, 1700s granider, 1600s– grenadier.

Etymology: < French grenadier, < grenade grenade n.¹ 2.

a. Originally: a soldier trained to throw grenades. Now (in the British army) only in the name of the Grenadier Guards (colloquial. Grenadiers), the first regiment of household infantry.At first, four or five grenadiers were attached to each company, but later, each battalion or regiment had a company of them. Though grenades went out of general use in the eighteenth century, the name of ‘grenadiers’ was retained for a company of the tallest and finest men in the regiment.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one using missiles > grenades

grenadier1676

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British

Ulsters1649

Scots Guardsa1675

fusilier1680

guards1682

Scots Dragoons1689

Scots Fusiliers1689

Inniskilling1715

Scots Greys1728

blue1737

Black Watch1739

Oxford blues1766

green linnets1793

Grenadiers1800

slashers1802

the Buffs1806

tartan1817

Gay Gordons1823

cheesemongers1824

Green Jacket1824

The Bays1837

RHA1837

dirty half-hundred1841

die-hard1844

lifeguard1849

cherry-picker1865

lancer-regiment1868

cheeses1877

Territorial Regiment1877

the Sweeps1879

dirty shirts1887

Scottish Rifles1888

shiner1891

Yorkshire1898

imperials1899

Irish guards1902

Hampshires1904

BEF1914

Old Contemptibles1915

contemptibles1917

Tank Corps1917

the Tins1918

skins1928

pioneer corps1939

red devils1943

Blues and Royals1968

U.D.R.1969

1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 405 If I went on with these Grenadeers, I would if possible, escape.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1678 (1955) IV. 137 Now were brought into service a new sort of souldier called Granadiers, who were dextrous to fling hand granados.

1686 London Gaz. No. 2106/4 Capt. Cornwallis's Company of Grenadiers in the Holland Regiment.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Prol. For Peace allays the Shepherd's Fear Of wearing Cap of Granadier.

1776 C. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 202 I have formed two companies of grenadiers to each regiment.

1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 164 I was in hopes that the grenadiers and the cavalry would have joined Lieut. Colonel Maclean.

1816 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges iii. 87 [The swimmers] were speedily followed by six companies of grenadiers in the boats.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 91 Guarded by griefs and grenadiers.

b. In extended use: a person with the build of a grenadier.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness > person

giant1559

Hercules1567

Gogmagogc1580

cob1582

Gargantuist1593

hulk1600

rhinoceros1602

colossus1605

pompiona1616

lump1630

strapper1675

man-mountain1726

Brobdingnagian1728

grenadier1805

butt-cut1806

gorilla1884

King Kong1933

hunk1941

1805 E. Cavanagh Let. 20 Aug. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 182 In walk'd a Grenadier of a Man with a silver Tray.

1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 105 I found two other guests. One was a country parish priest... He was a grenadier in person with the hale colour and circular wrinkles of a peasant.

1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris i. ii. 30 That straight, grenadier's back of hers.

1949 M. Laski Little Boy Lost iii. 57 No child of mine could ever have reminded this grenadier of her Isidor.

a. A South African weaver-bird, Pyromelana (or Ploceus) oryx, with vivid red and black plumage. Also grenadier grosbeak, grenadier waxbill.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > genus Ploceus

toddy bird1698

grenadier1751

red fink1867

1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 178 The Grenadier... This Bird was brought from Angola..; his Note is not very agreeable, it resembling the Winding-up of a Clock.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 346 The Grenadier Grosbeak is about the size of a sparrow. The body is..of a beautiful red colour.

1875–84 R. B. Sharpe Layard's Birds S. Afr. 474 Uræginthus granatinus, Grenadier Waxbill.

b. The fish Macrurus fabricii or M. rupestris.

ΚΠ

1889 Cent. Dict. at Macrurus (caption) Grenadier, or Onion-fish, (Macrurus rupestris).

Compounds

General attributive.

grenadier bonnet n.

ΚΠ

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. vi. 396 Demoiselle Théroigne has on her grenadier-bonnet.

1922 G. Looms Stubble x. 158 He thought about the old woman and her grenadier bonnet..and chuckled to himself.

2004 V. Brnardic Napoleon's Balkan Troops 20 (caption) The sapper from the 1st wears the grenadier bonnet with a red plume and white cord.

grenadier cap n. (also grenadier's cap)

ΚΠ

1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It i. 3 Dock. But what shall we do for a Grenadier's Cap? Steward. Fetch the Leathern Bucket that hangs in the Bellfry.

1834 Metropolitan Mag. Feb. 77/1 Transformed from a captain to a counsellor; changing the red coat for the black gown, and the grenadier's cap for the forensic wig.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 583/1 The grenadier cap, now a towering bearskin,..was, in the first instance, a limp conical cap (identical with the hussar cap), edged with fur and having a tassel at the end.

2010 P. Doyle & C. Foster Brit. Army Cap Badges ii. 19 When the fashion for grenade-wielding grenadiers arrived from the Continent in 1678, the distinctive mitre-like grenadier cap was created.

grenadier company n.

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1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 73/2 Serjeant of the grenadier company of the Royal Scots.

1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vi. 363 The grenadier company of the 3rd volunteer native battalion.

grenadier guard n.

ΚΠ

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. iv. 25 Her Father-in-Law..was in the Grenadier Guards.

Derivatives

grenaˈdier-like adj.

ΚΠ

1858 O. W. Holmes in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 459/2 Cottage, garden-beds, posies, grenadier-like rows of seedling onions,..all are gone.

1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 132 Grenadier-like, marching to assault.

1937 H. McBride Let. 4 July in Eye on Mod. Cent. (2000) 292 They are in [the] charge of a fierce, grenadier-like woman, who treats them like school girls.

grenaˈdierly adv. after the manner of a grenadier.

ΚΠ

1829 W. S. Landor Wks. (1846) 557/2 In the midst of her finery, she tosses down her gin grenadierly.

† grenaˈdiership n. Obsolete the position or function of grenadier.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one using missiles > grenades > position or function of

grenadiership1676

1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 405 In order to my Grenadiership, they had..put a linnen bagg full of Grenadoes about my shoulders.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	grenadier
释义	† grenadiern.¹ Etymology: < French grenadier, < grenade grenade n.¹ 1. Obsolete. A pomegranate tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > pomegranate-tree pomegranatea1382 pomegranate treea1382 grenadier1632 Punic tree1745 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 207 The best Carobiers, Adams Apples, and Grenadiers that grow on the earth is here [i.e. at Damascus]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). grenadiern.² /ɡrɛnəˈdɪə/ Forms: 1600s grenadeer, ( granatier), 1600s–1700s granadeer, granadier, 1700s granider, 1600s– grenadier. Etymology: < French grenadier, < grenade grenade n.¹ 2. 1. a. Originally: a soldier trained to throw grenades. Now (in the British army) only in the name of the Grenadier Guards (colloquial. Grenadiers), the first regiment of household infantry.At first, four or five grenadiers were attached to each company, but later, each battalion or regiment had a company of them. Though grenades went out of general use in the eighteenth century, the name of ‘grenadiers’ was retained for a company of the tallest and finest men in the regiment. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one using missiles > grenades grenadier1676 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British Ulsters1649 Scots Guardsa1675 fusilier1680 guards1682 Scots Dragoons1689 Scots Fusiliers1689 Inniskilling1715 Scots Greys1728 blue1737 Black Watch1739 Oxford blues1766 green linnets1793 Grenadiers1800 slashers1802 the Buffs1806 tartan1817 Gay Gordons1823 cheesemongers1824 Green Jacket1824 The Bays1837 RHA1837 dirty half-hundred1841 die-hard1844 lifeguard1849 cherry-picker1865 lancer-regiment1868 cheeses1877 Territorial Regiment1877 the Sweeps1879 dirty shirts1887 Scottish Rifles1888 shiner1891 Yorkshire1898 imperials1899 Irish guards1902 Hampshires1904 BEF1914 Old Contemptibles1915 contemptibles1917 Tank Corps1917 the Tins1918 skins1928 pioneer corps1939 red devils1943 Blues and Royals1968 U.D.R.1969 1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 405 If I went on with these Grenadeers, I would if possible, escape. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1678 (1955) IV. 137 Now were brought into service a new sort of souldier called Granadiers, who were dextrous to fling hand granados. 1686 London Gaz. No. 2106/4 Capt. Cornwallis's Company of Grenadiers in the Holland Regiment. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Prol. For Peace allays the Shepherd's Fear Of wearing Cap of Granadier. 1776 C. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 202 I have formed two companies of grenadiers to each regiment. 1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 164 I was in hopes that the grenadiers and the cavalry would have joined Lieut. Colonel Maclean. 1816 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges iii. 87 [The swimmers] were speedily followed by six companies of grenadiers in the boats. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 91 Guarded by griefs and grenadiers. b. In extended use: a person with the build of a grenadier. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness > person giant1559 Hercules1567 Gogmagogc1580 cob1582 Gargantuist1593 hulk1600 rhinoceros1602 colossus1605 pompiona1616 lump1630 strapper1675 man-mountain1726 Brobdingnagian1728 grenadier1805 butt-cut1806 gorilla1884 King Kong1933 hunk1941 1805 E. Cavanagh Let. 20 Aug. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 182 In walk'd a Grenadier of a Man with a silver Tray. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 105 I found two other guests. One was a country parish priest... He was a grenadier in person with the hale colour and circular wrinkles of a peasant. 1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris i. ii. 30 That straight, grenadier's back of hers. 1949 M. Laski Little Boy Lost iii. 57 No child of mine could ever have reminded this grenadier of her Isidor. 2. a. A South African weaver-bird, Pyromelana (or Ploceus) oryx, with vivid red and black plumage. Also grenadier grosbeak, grenadier waxbill. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > genus Ploceus toddy bird1698 grenadier1751 red fink1867 1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 178 The Grenadier... This Bird was brought from Angola..; his Note is not very agreeable, it resembling the Winding-up of a Clock. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 346 The Grenadier Grosbeak is about the size of a sparrow. The body is..of a beautiful red colour. 1875–84 R. B. Sharpe Layard's Birds S. Afr. 474 Uræginthus granatinus, Grenadier Waxbill. b. The fish Macrurus fabricii or M. rupestris. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. at Macrurus (caption) Grenadier, or Onion-fish, (Macrurus rupestris). Compounds General attributive. grenadier bonnet n. ΚΠ 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. vi. 396 Demoiselle Théroigne has on her grenadier-bonnet. 1922 G. Looms Stubble x. 158 He thought about the old woman and her grenadier bonnet..and chuckled to himself. 2004 V. Brnardic Napoleon's Balkan Troops 20 (caption) The sapper from the 1st wears the grenadier bonnet with a red plume and white cord. grenadier cap n. (also grenadier's cap) ΚΠ 1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It i. 3 Dock. But what shall we do for a Grenadier's Cap? Steward. Fetch the Leathern Bucket that hangs in the Bellfry. 1834 Metropolitan Mag. Feb. 77/1 Transformed from a captain to a counsellor; changing the red coat for the black gown, and the grenadier's cap for the forensic wig. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 583/1 The grenadier cap, now a towering bearskin,..was, in the first instance, a limp conical cap (identical with the hussar cap), edged with fur and having a tassel at the end. 2010 P. Doyle & C. Foster Brit. Army Cap Badges ii. 19 When the fashion for grenade-wielding grenadiers arrived from the Continent in 1678, the distinctive mitre-like grenadier cap was created. grenadier company n. ΚΠ 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 73/2 Serjeant of the grenadier company of the Royal Scots. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vi. 363 The grenadier company of the 3rd volunteer native battalion. grenadier guard n. ΚΠ 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. iv. 25 Her Father-in-Law..was in the Grenadier Guards. Derivatives grenaˈdier-like adj. ΚΠ 1858 O. W. Holmes in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 459/2 Cottage, garden-beds, posies, grenadier-like rows of seedling onions,..all are gone. 1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 132 Grenadier-like, marching to assault. 1937 H. McBride Let. 4 July in Eye on Mod. Cent. (2000) 292 They are in [the] charge of a fierce, grenadier-like woman, who treats them like school girls. grenaˈdierly adv. after the manner of a grenadier. ΚΠ 1829 W. S. Landor Wks. (1846) 557/2 In the midst of her finery, she tosses down her gin grenadierly. † grenaˈdiership n. Obsolete the position or function of grenadier. 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