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Definition of Close-order drill
1. Noun. (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder).
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Close-order Drill
Literary usage of Close-order drill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Self-helps for the Citizen Soldier: Being a Popular Explanation of Things by James Alfred Moss (1915)
"CLOSE ORDER DRILL—Close order drill in one form or another generally follows next
in order. This drill is sometimes known as the "Mill of Discipline," ..."
2. Military Manpower: Psychology as Applied to the Training of Men and the by Lincoln Clarke Andrews (1920)
"Close Order Drill. This drill of precision for developing discipline is the ideal
of drill. Smart, snappy, full of life and spirit, it should be made the ..."
3. The Three Hundred and First Engineers: A History, 1917-1919 by 301st Engineer Regiment, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Army, United States (1920)
"However, it had been three months since any form of a close-order drill had been
... During the month of March a half-hour daily close-order drill for ..."
4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1888)
"The strict Prussian training in close order drill must be continued.” The “ hard
and fast line “ which Colonel Macdonald says “ sepa. rates the parade drill ..."
5. Seventy-first New York in the World War by Robert Stewart Sutliffe (1922)
"7:15— 7:45 Close order drill. 7:45— 8:00 Manual of arms. ... 11:15—11:30 Close
order drill. 11:45 Inspection (men, tents and streets). 12:00 Mess. ..."
6. History of the Three Hundred Fiftieth Regiment of U. S. Infantry, Eighty by Proctor M. Fiske (1919)
"E. With February came the second draft from Iowa and northern Minnesota, and
also, intensive close order drill and intensified paper work ..."
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