Skirmisher
[skә:miʃә]
Definition
(noun.) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party).
Edited by Dinah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who skirmishes.
(n.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.
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Examples
- Orders were to move cautiously with skirmishers to the front to feel for the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Soon the foot of the hill was reached; the skirmishers pushed directly up, followed closely by their supports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Our impatience led us to move in advance of the column and well up with the advanced skirmishers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I rode forward, or rather back, to where the middle road intersects the north road, and found the skirmishers of Carr's division just coming in. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Pickets and skirmishers were sent along our entire front to find the position of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They formed line rapidly and we started back to our boats, with the men deployed as skirmishers as they had been on entering camp. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But now the enemy opened fire upon their assailants, and made several attempts with their skirmishers to drive them away, but without avail. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Osterhaus was farther south and soon after came up with skirmishers advanced in like manner. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Osterhaus, on the middle road, hearing the firing, pushed his skirmishers forward, found the enemy's pickets and forced them back to the main line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Soon after we had started in line, his skirmishers were encountered and fighting commenced. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Skirmishers thirty feet apart could have maintained either line at this point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Tamara