Lance Corporal Definition

noun
A private acting temporarily as a corporal.
Webster's New World
An enlisted person ranking below a corporal and above a private first class.
Webster's New World
One who holds this rank.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Lance Corporal

Noun

Singular:
lance corporal
Plural:
lance-corporals

Origin of Lance Corporal

  • From lancepesade from obsolete French lancepessade from Italian lancia spezzata superior soldier lancia lance (from Latin lancea lance) spezzata feminine past participle of spezzare to break to pieces

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lance Corporal Sentence Examples

  • He had aboard his two ships, the " Lady Nelson " of 60 tons and the whaler " Albion " of 3 06 tons, three officials, a lance-corporal and seven privates of the New South Wales Corps, six free men and twenty-five convicts, together with an adequate supply of live stock, and landed at Risdon, near Hobart, where he was joined shortly afterwards by fifteen soldiers and forty-two convicts.

  • Ryan is a Lance Corporal in the Slough Company of the Boys Brigade and he is a keen cook.

  • Sedgewick has been made an unpaid lance corporal and I have lost him for good.

  • They arrested former lance corporal Leslie Skinner who had been a training instructor at the camp.

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