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Definition of Rearmost
1. Adjective. Located farthest to the rear.
Definition of Rearmost
1. a. Farthest in the rear; last.
Definition of Rearmost
1. Adjective. The one furthest to the rear. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rearmost
1. coming or situated last [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rearmost
Literary usage of Rearmost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Infantry Tactics, Or, Rules for the Exercise and Manoeuvres of the United by Winfield Scott (1861)
"To close the column on the rearmost company. 1848. ... if he wish to close it to
half distance on the rearmost company, will command : 1. ..."
2. Infantry Tactics: For the Instruction, Exercise, and Manœuvres of the by Silas Casey (1862)
"TO CLOSE THE COLUMN ON THE EIGHTH, OB rearmost COMPANY. 316. The column being at
a halt, if instead of ..."
3. Infantry Tactics, Double and Single Rank, Adapted to American Topography and by Emory Upton (1875)
"To close ike column on the rearmost division. 512. Being at a halt, the colonel
commands: . On fifth division close in mass, 2. ..."
4. An Introduction to Greek Prose Composition: With Copious Explanatory by Charles Anthon (1843)
"Xenophon thereupon separated (from the rest) the rearmost divisions, of two
hundred men each. ... rearmost ..."
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