Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cutthroat.
- n. Milit., a position affording an enemy so many advantages that the troops who occupy it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.
Wiktionary
- n. military Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil.) Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.
Etymologies
- French, literally "cut-throat". (Wiktionary)
Examples
““why, this is worse than a coupe-gorge house, where they receive travellers to plunder them of their property.””
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
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