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Fencible   Listen
noun
Fencible  n.  (Mil.) A soldier enlisted for home service only; usually in the pl.






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"Fencible" Quotes from Famous Books



... the first unit raised appears to have been a regiment of "Fencible Cavalry" named "The Fifeshire Light Dragoons"; like other Fencible Units throughout the country this regiment seems to have been more or less a Regular Unit enlisted for the period of the war and for home service only. It was apparently ...
— The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 • D. D. Ogilvie



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