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Definition of Bandoleers
1. bandoleer [n] - See also: bandoleer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bandoleers
Literary usage of Bandoleers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Army: Its Origin, Progress, and Equipment by James Sibbald David Scott, Sibbald David Scott (1868)
"... —bandoleers—BREECH-LOADERS —BAYONET. Hand PORTABLE or hand fire-arms—what are
now called Fire-arms. small arms—although invented in the fourteenth ..."
2. Reginald Hastings: Or, A Tale of the Troubles in 164- by Eliot Warburton (1850)
"... more than streams of foreign gore men have no powder in their bandoleers, but
let plenty be at hand. ..."
3. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1826)
"1634 by Mr. William Watson, of which 1 had no charge, 100 black muskets with
bandoleers and rests 25 square muskets with rests and bandoleers 25 carbines ..."
4. History of Hadley: Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley by Sylvester Judd, Lucius Manlius Boltwood, George Sheldon (1905)
"Take up your bandoleers. Put on your bandoleers. Take up your match. Place your
match. ... Lay down your bandoleers. Here endeth the postures of the musket. ..."
5. Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American by American Antiquarian Society, Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) (1836)
"That one of them had a pair of bandoleers belonging to one of the persons slain.
That another had on a bloody shirt. But when the poor Indians had answered ..."
6. Affray at Brownsville, Tex by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs (1907)
"They did not have any empty bandoleers. By Senator OVERMAN : Q. When they were empty
... Q. You didn't bring any empty bandoleers wjth you to Brownsville? ..."
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