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  • noun Plural form of drillmaster.

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Examples

  • Gunpowder complicated things further, so from the sixteenth century on, troops slapped wood and iron and marched and countermarched to the choreography of drillmasters.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Gunpowder complicated things further, so from the sixteenth century on, troops slapped wood and iron and marched and countermarched to the choreography of drillmasters.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Gunpowder complicated things further, so from the sixteenth century on, troops slapped wood and iron and marched and countermarched to the choreography of drillmasters.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Gunpowder complicated things further, so from the sixteenth century on, troops slapped wood and iron and marched and countermarched to the choreography of drillmasters.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Teachers should be returned to their original roles as facilitators, not bureaucrats or drillmasters.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • The CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, has said that he now has to "coddle" his employees, and even the U.S. military has encouraged its drillmasters to do less shouting because, according to Under Secretary of Defense David Chu, today's generation of recruits respond better to instructors who play "a more counseling-type role."

    Hillary and the Gender Wars 2008

  • One was the immense service rendered by graduates of the Virginia Military Institute and the South Carolina Military Academy as drillmasters and then as company and regimental officers.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • One was the immense service rendered by graduates of the Virginia Military Institute and the South Carolina Military Academy as drillmasters and then as company and regimental officers.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • One was the immense service rendered by graduates of the Virginia Military Institute and the South Carolina Military Academy as drillmasters and then as company and regimental officers.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • One was the immense service rendered by graduates of the Virginia Military Institute and the South Carolina Military Academy as drillmasters and then as company and regimental officers.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

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