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- noun Plural form of
matross .
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Examples
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I know one gamer who makes little artillery vignettes wherein the artillery matrosses the hired manual labor have attached ropes to the guns and are dragging them forward.
Archive 2007-08-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007
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When I saw all these, I remembered what Master Palaemon had said before my masking about following the drum; and although I had held the matrosses of the Citadel in some contempt, I seemed to hear the long rattle of the call to parade, and the bright challenge the trumpets sent from the battlements.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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Of this kind are the soldiers upon Hadrian's day, the matrosses on Barbara's, the witches on Mag's, and many others.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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After the last cracker had popped and the matrosses, in their annual gesture of amity, had torn the sky with the largest piece of ordinance in the Great Keep, I hustled my charges - already, or so I thought, beginning to look at me resentfully - back to our dormitory, closed the door, and pushed a cot against it.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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All officers, conductors, gunners, matrosses, drivers, or other persons whatsoever, receiving pay or hire in the service of the artillery, or corps of engineers of the Confederate
A digest of the military and naval laws of the Confederate States : from the commencement of the Provisional Congress to the end of the first Congress under the permanent constitution, Confederate States of America. 1864
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The Castle was garrisoned by but twelve men, and of these six were invalids and matrosses; but the other six were tall and sturdy veterans, who had been indeed of Oliver's Life-guard, and were now confirmed in their places, and with the pay, not of common soldiers, but of private gentlemen, by the King's own order.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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With a howitzer, some matrosses and fifty infantry,
The Life of Francis Marion Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 1844
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At the fort at Plumb-Island, one corporal and three matrosses.
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Resolved, That there be raised m the County of Essex and sta - chap. 43. tioned at the fort on Plumb-Island, one serjeant and six matrosses; Province and that there be raised and stationed at Glocester, one serjeant diap. '4'io. '
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At the forts on Dorchester heights, one serjeant and nine matrosses.
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