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  • noun Plural form of carbineer.

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Examples

  • A Belgian soldier belonging to a battalion of cyclist carbineers, who had been wounded and made prisoner, was bound to a telegraph pole on the St. Trond road and shot.

    New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? Various

  • Besides these, there were four officers, a band, and sixteen mounted carbineers.

    The Prince and Betty 1928

  • She -- as she assured them -- had descended from the heights of the Comandancia (her husband had been a commander of the carbineers) to the wretchedness of running a boarding-house, yet she was resigned, and her lips curled in

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

  • "Go away, Signorina, I beseech you," exclaimed the Colonel of carbineers.

    The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Voices, footsteps, sounded outside and a man in the cocked hat and uniform of a lieutenant of carbineers came briskly into the hall and saluted his superior.

    The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • I have begun already and I have accomplished more than Colonel Neri and his carbineers.

    The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • No! Send back the armed men, give me ten thousand of your American dollars, and ten of my carbineers, and I will catch Cardi, though it would require the cunning of the devil.

    The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • They scoured the mountains and patrolled the roads; they searched the houses and farms, the valleys and thickets, and as the days dragged on, proving the futility of their efforts, still more carbineers arrived.

    The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • For by this time the patrol-boat with the carbineers had reached the steamer's side and a boarding-ladder had been thrown across her quarter.

    Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

  • To-morrow morning you will report yourself to the captain of the carbineers.

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

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