lance-jack

noun

lance-jack

noun

1

Government, Military, Politics, War UK, Slang A lance-corporal or lance-bombadier.

They made him a lance-jack; but it was only because they wanted somebody tall at the end of the front rank to fix bayonets by.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 44:

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