| 单词 | pack-drill |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspack-drill pack-drill n. Military a form of drill used as a punishment and involving marching in full uniform carrying a heavy pack (no names, no pack-drill: see no names, no pack drill at name n. and adj. Phrases 20). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > punishments fatigue1776 rack-lashing1822 pack-drill1836 shot-drill1864 jankers1916 slack party1933 1836 Rep. Commissioners Syst. Mil. Punishments Army 28 in Parl. Papers XXII. 1 Black hole, dry room, pack drill, confinement to barracks, and bread and water..I would alone leave to the commanding officer. 1845 W. H. Maxwell Hints to Soldier I. 13 A full guard house, dozens at pack-drill. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 20 O it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B. For ‘drunk and resisting the Guard!’ 1922 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (Oxford text) ci. 225 The effects and severity of pack-drill and fatigues fell little short of the Egyptian and Turkish system. 1989 V. Scannell Sanitation Wallah in Coll. Poems (1993) 294 I had a two-month spell Of pack-drill at the double in..Detention. < as lemmas |
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