fencible

/ ˈfɛnsəbəl /

adjective

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

He concludes that about one fencible man in eleven was killed, and every eleventh family burned out.

Obviously, this organization was one of the state fencible units enlisted for defense only, but little else is known about it.

This beautiful girl was, about the year 1795, kept as a mistress by an adjutant of a Scotch regiment of fencible cavalry.

He was a wizened, daft old one, always in a tinker Fencible's tartan trews and scarlet doublet.

In his fifteenth year he enlisted in a fencible regiment, which was afterwards stationed at Inverness.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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