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regimental

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Word definitions for regimental in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from regiment (n.) + -al (1). As a noun, regimentals , "dress proper to a particular regiment, military uniform," is from 1742.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. belonging to or concerning a regiment; "regimental units"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regimental \Reg`i*men"tal\ (-m[e^]n"tal), a. Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing. Regimental school , in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context military English) Relating to a regiment 2 Overly strict; rigid

Usage examples of regimental.

As I was saying, what would it get Major Barton to attack regimental headquarters?

They tell you everything in the Academy: leadership, communications, the precise form of a regimental parade, laser range-finding systems, placement of patches on uniforms, how to compute firing patterns for mortars, wine rations for the troops, how to polish a pair of boots, servicing recoilless rifles, delivery of calling cards to all senior officers within twenty-four hours of reporting to a new post, assembly and maintenance of helicopters, survival on rocks with poisonous atmosphere or no atmosphere at all, shipboard routines, and a million other details.

Additional ammunition, already issued to the troops, tentage, baggage, and company cooking utensils will be left under charge of the regimental quartermaster, with one non-commissioned officer and two privates from each company.

As at Talana Hill, regimental formation was largely gone, and men of the Manchesters, Gordons, and Imperial Light Horse surged upwards in one long ragged fringe, Scotchman, Englishman, and British Africander keeping pace in that race of death.

And in the wooden monastery old Mael, seated on a bench in the shade of an old fig-tree, accompanied by a pious monk called Regimental, kept asking himself anxiously and sadly how it was that there was not in Alca a single virgin fit to overthrow the monster.

There he was greeted by the parliamentary member, the representatives of the local council, various trembling beadles and burghers, and a squad of shrunken, bemedalled regimental pensioners in their frayed crimson tunics, ready for one final war.

I could hardly promote Bikaner to regimental guide, since there was but one such rank in the entire regiment of Lancers and that held by Evatt, back in Mehul.

Had he not fallen into disfavor, been court-martialed, and condemned to being a regimental whore, he would probably have run the place and it would have had no chance of defeat.

When the mutiny bill fell under deliberation, the earl of Egmont proposed a new clause for empowering and requiring regimental courts-martial to examine witnesses upon oath in all their trials.

Three of the flags were Old Glories, the others were regimental flags carrying state badges or martial insignias.

Joe made his way over to the mess to fill his cigarette case from one of the many boxes always charged with the fat oval cigarettes bearing the regimental badge and supplied by Fribourg and Treyer of London.

Standing there in the pale sunlight, which quivered like gauze over the dark red curtains, the Duncan Phyfe dining-table, the old English silver on the sideboard, and the rarest English mezzotints on the ivory walls--standing there, against that decorous Virginian background, Curle appeared, she told herself sadly, as inspiring and almost as loud as a regimental band.

On April the first, the day after the disastrous payday, Pvt Icl Bloom the potential middleweight, Pvt Icl Malleaux the new man and potential featherweight, and several other Pfcs who were potential went on Detached Service with the new class at the Regimental NCO School.

The regimental bands played on, while in the squares the colours hung heavy in the humid and smoke-stained air.

It was made up of distinct elements, the green-clad regular army formations with their wide-brimmed tropical helmets, the black shirt r Fascist militia with their high boots and cross-straps, their deaths head and thunderbolt badges and their glittering daggers, the regular colonial units of black Somalis and Eritreans in their tall tasselled red fezes and baggy shirts, their gaily coloured regimental sashes and put teed legs above bare feet.