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Close order   /kloʊs ˈɔrdər/   Listen
Close order

noun
1.
A military formation for drill or marching.





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"Close order" Quotes from Famous Books



... who might escape, were outside—but their enemies surrounded them at once. The Blackfeet remaining were not many. They never faltered nor signed surrender. They only sang their death chants; and forming in close order they moved along the ridge like one man, cutting a ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin
... were all sailing in close order through a narrow sound, Cormac swung his steering-oar and hit Thorvald a clout on the ear, so that he fell from his place at the helm in a swoon; and Cormac's ship hove to, when she lost her rudder. Steingerd had been sitting beside Thorvald; ...
— The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald • Unknown


Words linked to "Close order" :   war machine, military machine, armed services, military, military formation, armed forces


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