The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fusileer \Fu"sil*eer"\, Fusilier \Fu"sil*ier"\, n. [F. fusilier, fr. fusil.] (Mil.)
Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:
A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, ``The Royal Fusiliers,'' etc.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of fusilier English)
Usage examples of "fusileer".
Waterloo men known to the writer in his youth, John Bentley of the Fusileer Guards, use to declare that he lay down on the ground in such weariness that when food was brought him he could not eat it, and slept till next morning on an empty stomach.
But a comparatively fresh division, with fusileers, is brought into the turmoil by HARDINGE and COLE, and these make one last strain to save the day, and their names and lives.
The fusileers mount the incline, and issuing from the smoke and mist startle the enemy by their arrival on a spot deemed won.