fencible

British  

/ ˈfɛnsəbəl /

adjective

1. a Scot word for defensible

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noun

1. (formerly) a person who undertook military service in immediate defence of his homeland only

Example Sentences

You know Frazer, the hautboy player in Edinburgh—he is here instructing a band of music for a fencible corps quartered in this country.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

The Committee of Estates dared to resist the Remonstrants: even the Commissioners of the General Assembly “cannot be against the raising of all fencible persons,”—and at last adopted the attitude of all sensible persons. 

From A Short History of Scotland by Lang, Andrew

So rigorously was it applied that, what with voluntary and enforced enlistment, one town, that of Gloucester, was deprived of two-thirds of its fencible men.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis

It is certain that all fencible persons were not present, because the whole army being numbered, ver.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Suppose the enemy's army to consist of 20,000 or above, are there not more fencible persons in the shires on the north side of Forth?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh