| 单词 | quarter-wheeling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-wheeling quarter-wheeling n. Military (now historical) the action or manoeuvre of turning through a quarter of a circle. ΚΠ 1692 J. Moxon Epitome Whole Art of War 28 They that made the Quarter Wheeling, wheel by half Conversion to the Right. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Quarter Quarter Wheeling..in the Military Art, is a Motion whereby the Front of a Body of Men is turn'd round to where the Flank was. 1865 C. T. Brooks tr. J. P. F. Richter Hesperus II. xlv. 436 I had unfortunately, during the quarter-wheelings and manual evolutions of my defence, run my shoulder-blade upon the point of a sword. 1979 S. Ross From Flintlock to Rifle i. 36 To deploy from column into line, Guibert called for the use of quarter wheeling or the employment of the same method used to get from line to column. < as lemmas |
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