summary court-martial

noun

, U.S. Military.

a court-martial composed of one commissioned officer, authorized to try minor offenses against military law.

Confined, serving sentence—it should be summary court-martial, but let me look at the record.

Thongs in hand you two have overturned my motives, and, by a very summary court-martial, condemned them to be scourged out.

And with a memory o' the last time I'd been up before a summary court-martial, I takes charge of the case.

Offenses of this kind were to be punished by summary court-martial, which had even the power to inflict death.

What a fool he'd been to get scared like that, and a summary court-martial couldn't do much to you anyway.

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