Lance-jack

noun, slang

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Noun

1
A lance-corporal or lance-bombadier. UK, slang
"They made him a lance-jack; but it was only because they wanted somebody tall at the end of the front rank to fix bayonets by."

Example

"They made him a lance-jack; but it was only because they wanted somebody tall at the end of the front rank to fix bayonets by."

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