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Definition of Muster call
1. Noun. A call of the names of personnel at a military assembly.
Generic synonyms: Roll Call
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muster Call
Literary usage of Muster call
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... beating the muster-call. But the roll of the drum made the pillaging soldiers
not run up at the call as of old, but, on the contrary, run away from the ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1849)
"... but absence from muster call is by no means tolerated, nor can it be commuted
by fine, if the delinquency be repeated, ..."