sergeant-major

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noun A rank of non-commissioned officer in various military services of the world.

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The company sergeant-major, he threw himself on a grenade to protect his comrades, dying in the process.

Hong Kong's Second World War Euan McKirdy 2011
Armored Div command sergeant-major with 27 yrs service,

well built man in a kilt | My[confined]Space 2009
The sergeant-major posture, the aquiline nose, the forbidding brow of an Easter Island monolith: Jack Charlton.

On the decline of civility 2009
Likewise, his two brothers had gone into the army; one, troop sergeant-major of the Seventh Hussars, dying in

THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER 2010
The company sergeant-major threw himself on a grenade to protect his comrades, dying in the process.

Hong Kong's Second World War Euan McKirdy 2011
At six-two, I towered over the sergeant-major as he stood at attention in front of his desk.

Nutrition 2010
The sergeant-major, a burly Irishman with a handlebar moustache, stepped in with a stool and apologized to me.

Nutrition 2010
"Her husband's a blacksmith," the sergeant-major added.

Nutrition 2010
An ex–military policeman, he was nicknamed Ping after the Elastic Man, but he was Elastic Man with a moustache and a terrifying sergeant-major bellow, which he used at close range to yell right into the eardrum of any boy whom he managed to snare.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
Did the sergeant-major or his men follow Lieutenant Langford out and shoot him?

Nutrition 2010