grenadier
榴弹炮,榴弹兵,手榴弹部队,手榴弹
Definitions
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- : a member of the first regiment of household infantry .
- : a specially selected foot soldier in certain elite units.
- : a soldier who threw grenades.
- : Also called rattail, rat-tail . any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Macrouridae, having an elongated, tapering tail.
Examples
After the Poles had been besieged for 24 hours they were relieved by a column of Shermans from the Canadian Grenadier Guards.
A Grenadier Guards sergeant who was among the audience told the paper, "It was really tip-top."
Tonight, he will host a dinner at Buckingham Palace in his role of Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
A Grenadier Guardsman would serve the couple “gin and orange and beef sandwiches by the open fire.”
She charges me like a grenadier and asks me to give her—guess a little what!
Behind which follow stragglers of the Garde-du-Corps; all humiliated, in Grenadier bonnets.
He wore a mitre of leather, with the front like a grenadier's cap, adorned with mock embroidery, and trinkets of tin.
A fearless French grenadier scaled the wall, but he and his comrades within were killed.
Sheridan was a grenadier company of life-guards, but Colman a whole regiment—of light infantry, to be sure, but still a regiment.