Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A day appointed for militia-training in bodies collected from different places.
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Examples
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Who forgets the great muster-day, and the collision of the classic with the democratic forces?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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For some time previously to muster-day, the stock-keepers have been very busy drawing their herds by degrees as near the stock-yard as possible; and when the day arrives, the whole are driven into the yard to be inspected.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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He had felt so confident of the office in advance of muster-day, that he had rummaged through several country tailor-shops and got a new suit of the nearest approach to a captain's uniform that their scant stock could furnish.
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He obtained liberty to preach the next day, but I recollect that my mother was very uneasy that he came at that time, because it was muster-day in one or our old fields, when two captains met together with their companies on Saturdays.
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It was Saturday, the 12th of April, and was a general muster-day for the conscripts over the whole country; but as soon as the news of our raid was received, drill was suspended, and every one turned out in search of us.
Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure William Pittenger 1872
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A very great day indeed was the muster-day, when sometimes an entire brigade would be called out for drill.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865
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The auspicious muster-day arrives, and the people collect from Stewart's Creek, Ring's Creek, Beaver Dam, Big Fisher's and Little Fisher's Rivers, from the "Hollow," "the Foot uv the Mounting" -- from the Dan to the Beersheba of that whole country.
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Who forgets the great muster-day, and the collision of the classic with the democratic forces?
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Who forgets the great muster-day, and the collision of the classic with the democratic forces?
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Like a dramseller on the mall at muster-day, I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice.
Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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