Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A non-commissioned staff-officer in the United States army, appointed from sergeants who have faithfully served in the line five years, including three years in the grade of non-commissioned officers. His duty is to assist the commissary in the discharge of all his duties.
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Examples
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They stopped in front of the main entrance, and a commissary-sergeant leaped from one of the wagons and inquired for Mon. Devanne.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Maurice Leblanc 1902
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McKee mentions a commissary-sergeant stationed at Santa Fe,
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McKee mentions a commissary-sergeant stationed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, who recovered after a gunshot wound of the liver.
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Virginia, and in the winter's camp at Fayetteville received his first promotion, commissary-sergeant, on April 15, 1862.
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War William McKinley 1872
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That the commanding officer of a regiment or battalion shall, when the good of the service in his opinion requires it, detail a non-commissioned officer or private as commissary-sergeant, who shall be assigned to the regimental quartermaster to perform the duties now performed by commissary-sergeants, and the non-commissioned officer or private so detailed shall receive as extra pay twenty dollars per month.
A digest of the military and naval laws of the Confederate States : from the commencement of the Provisional Congress to the end of the first Congress under the permanent constitution, Confederate States of America. 1864
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That commissary-sergeant caught one of 'em in the act -- he got wind of it and skipped, and to-day came back in handcuffs. "
Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Charles King 1888
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