The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fatigue \Fa*tigue"\, n. [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.]
Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.
--Dryden.-
The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties.
Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers.
Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms.
--Farrow.Fatigue party, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.
WordNet
n. a group of soldiers on fatigue duty
Usage examples of "fatigue party".
You may keep the fatigue party of soldiers upon the same terms as before as long as they may prove useful to you, provided they return to the fort by the coming of winter.
Four more men paralleled the fatigue party at some distance in the woods: pickets, in case Mirandola turned out to have dangers the pilotry data had ignored.
So it was with some satisfaction that I noted facings and markers - the old 60th Royal Americans, the Buffs, a fatigue party of the 44th - I felt a cold shudder at the memory of the bloody snow by Gandamack, the starved handful of survivors, and Soutar with the Colours of this same 44th wrapped round his waist as the Ghazis closed in for the kill.
Instantly the regiments began to defile through the kraal gateway in perfect silence, a fatigue party only remaining behind to drag away the corpses of those who had been sacrificed.