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Sick call   /sɪk kɔl/   Listen
Sick call

noun
1.
The daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick.  Synonym: sick parade.






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"Sick call" Quotes from Famous Books



... At sick call all men who are sick fall in and are marched to the regimental infirmary, under charge of the noncommissioned officer in charge of quarters. The noncommissioned officer takes with him the company sick report previously ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department

... that anyone should know his cousin Walt and not be eager to talk about him. He did not approach the subject again till he and Knudsen and I and Corder were together in the tent. Then he put it right up to me. "Weren't you my cousin's best man?" "I was," said I, and Sick Call having just blown, I went out, saying that I wanted to see who answered it. I know Knudsen and Corder looked at me hard; as for David, he cried out, "Oh, I beg your pardon!" I have reasoned out that with his delicate social perceptions and the stock of gossip that ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French

... is, your reverence, and callin' for the priest this three days; but as we heard your reverence say that you would be in the country till this day, we thought it no use to give in the sick call sooner. I myself gave it in this morning afore my poor, ...
— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley

... The daily sick call of the battery was exceptionally large at Benoite Vaux. Colds and cooties played havoc with the boys for ...
— The Delta of the Triple Elevens - The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, - American Expeditionary Forces • William Elmer Bachman

... more I want to meet the fello that wrote Black Buty. He must have learned about horses in a carpenter shop. Im goin to rite a book about them when I get home that will put the S.P.C.A. out of business. I got to stop ritin now an answer sick call with my foot. Yesterday they gave me some pills. I suppose today theyll look at my tongue an tell me its my ...
— "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" • Edward Streeter



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