OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 38498

skirmisher

Meanings (ES + gloss)
escaramuzador • hostigador
An infantry soldier used for skirmishing.
A skirmisher had fired three shots at the Captain -- the third striking his horse. He dismounted to see how much the animal was injured, and had just placed one foot in the stirrup…
The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap.
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