bandoleer
noun
a broad belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers and having a number of small loops or pockets, for holding a cartridge or cartridges.
bandoliered
-
a word derived from
bandoleer.
Example Sentences
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Banged in open order before him were a full half-hundred of the enemy, bearded, black-coated, bandoliered, grim and stolid and ripe of years.
From On the Firing Line by Hamilton Brock Fuller
There appeared armed and bandoliered Boers, prepared to join their countrymen in the field, with wounded friends and sad-faced women to bid farewell to them.
From With the Boer Forces by Howard Clemens Hillegas
And within her girdle of trenches, stern, grimy, haggard men lived, cheek to the heated rifle-breech, and ate, and snatched brief spells of sleep, booted and bandoliered, and with the loaded weapon ready for gripping.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
