top sergeant

a first sergeant.

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A bet is synonymous with a wager, but what does it mean in New York?

First recorded in 1915–20

Then early in the afternoon my top-sergeant got a bayonet, and a hand-grenade got a group of my non-commissioned officers.
Soldier Silhouettes on our Front|William L. Stidger
It came from a prisoner on the transport who was sentenced to fifteen years for striking a top-sergeant.
Soldier Silhouettes on our Front|William L. Stidger
His top-sergeant had seen to that, even though the soldier had surreptitiously sought to slip a revolver inside his army shirt.
The Code of the Mountains|Charles Neville Buck
Top-Sergeant Peter Spooner glanced at that scowl, and a faint frown crossed his own features.
The Code of the Mountains|Charles Neville Buck

Our top-sergeant was scoring badly at six hundred yards, and the lieutenant said, “Let me try your gun.”
At Plattsburg|Allen French