fencible
/ (ˈfɛnsəbəl) /
a Scot word for defensible
(formerly) a person who undertook military service in immediate defence of his homeland only
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How to use fencible in a sentence
He concludes that about one fencible man in eleven was killed, and every eleventh family burned out.
Great Events in the History of North and South America | Charles A. GoodrichObviously, this organization was one of the state fencible units enlisted for defense only, but little else is known about it.
American Military Insignia 1800-1851 | J. Duncan Campbell and Edgar M. Howell.This beautiful girl was, about the year 1795, kept as a mistress by an adjutant of a Scotch regiment of fencible cavalry.
A History of the Gipsies | Walter SimsonHe was a wizened, daft old one, always in a tinker fencible's tartan trews and scarlet doublet.
The Lost Pibroch | Neil MunroIn his fifteenth year he enlisted in a fencible regiment, which was afterwards stationed at Inverness.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. | Various
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