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    Lieut.
    abbreviation
    lieutenant.
  • Lieut
    Lieut
    abbreviation
    lieutenant

Lieut.

American  

abbreviation

  1. lieutenant.


Lieut British  

abbreviation

  1. Also: Lt.  lieutenant

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Lieut. null fighter snapped to bits in mid-air when something, possibly the propeller, broke.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elaine Fairless ; both for the second time; in Huntington, W. Va. Lieut. and Mrs. Fairless attended the bridal couple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ensign in 60th Regt., 8th July, 1760; Lieut. in do.

From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)

The Lieut. went a Shoar to Gett some hands that had promist to Come on board when we were Ready to Sail.

From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)

Lieut. governor of Guernsey, flattering testimonials published by, respecting Sir J. Saumarez, i.

From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Ross, John, Sir

Fl Lieut Stark said the aircraft dated from the 1970s and didn't have the same safety measures of more modern aircraft, but pilots were aware of this.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2021

The citizen turned out to be retired Lieut.

From Slate May 14, 2020

They ran out of their tunnel and hid under a bridge where Lieut.

From Fox News Jun. 3, 2019

The story that Mr. Gray has chosen seems an unlikely candidate for such revisionism because it turns on Lieut.

From New York Times Apr. 13, 2017

She was the daughter of Spencer Phips, who was Lieut.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

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