| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine.[Wordnet]
2. A soldier armed with a carbine.[Websters]. | |
Sources: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) | Top | |
Date "CARBINEER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
| Etymology:Carbineer \Car`bi*neer"\, noun. [French expression carabinier.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CARBINEER
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: Carbineer or Carabineer. Properly a skirmisher or light horseman, from the Arabic carabine. A carbine is the light musket used by cavalry soldiers. 2: "He ... left the Rhinegrave, with his company of mounted carbineers, to guard the passage." Motley: Dutch Republic (vol. i. part i. chap. ii. p. 179). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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