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fencible
/ ˈfɛnsəbəl /
noun
- (formerly) a person who undertook military service in immediate defence of his homeland only
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He concludes that about one fencible man in eleven was killed, and every eleventh family burned out.
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Obviously, this organization was one of the state fencible units enlisted for defense only, but little else is known about it.
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This beautiful girl was, about the year 1795, kept as a mistress by an adjutant of a Scotch regiment of fencible cavalry.
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He was a wizened, daft old one, always in a tinker Fencible's tartan trews and scarlet doublet.
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In his fifteenth year he enlisted in a fencible regiment, which was afterwards stationed at Inverness.
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