Military. A horse and his rider; hence a cavalry soldier. Collective plural horse: Horse soldiers, cavalry. See also light horse, n.
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| 释义 | society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > cavalry (21) horse1548 Military. A horse and his rider; hence a cavalry soldier. Collective plural horse: Horse soldiers, cavalry. See also light horse, n. chivalry1562 collective. Knights or horsemen equipped for battle. Rarely applied to cavalry, n. in the ordinary modern sense. Obsolete. cavalry1591 The collective term for horse-soldiers; that part of a military force which consists of mounted troops. Opposed to infantry. chavallery1619 = cavalry, n. troop-horse1640 (a) a cavalry horse; †(b) collectively horsemen for a troop. Subcategories:— Greek or Roman (1) — medieval or chivalrous (3) — mounted recruits (1) — heavy cavalry (1) — light cavalry (2) — horse-guards (2) — other British (4) — foreign (2) |
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