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单词 fencible
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Definition of fencible in English:

fencible

noun ˈfɛnsɪb(ə)l
usually fencibleshistorical

  • A soldier belonging to a British militia which could be called up only for service on home soil.

    〈史〉（应召入伍后只能在本国服役的英国）国防军士兵

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A cockney by birth, he had been apprenticed to an engraver and had only become a soldier as a volunteer in the Warwickshire fencibles (reserve cavalry) in the invasion scare of 1800.
    • During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars the British regular army remained fairly small, but home defence forces such as yeomanry, volunteers, and fencibles proliferated.
    • During the Napoleonic wars, the militia was supplemented by various ‘fencibles’, and after 1859 by the Rifle Volunteers.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'fit or suitable for defence'): shortening of defensible. Compare with fence, fend.
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