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SOME MILITARY TERMS
Оглавление| Water-Party | A fatigue party carrying water. |
| To have Wind up | (to rhyme with 'pinned up')—To be uneasy, 'on edge.' |
| Drumming up | Making a fire for the purpose of warming food. |
| Blighty | England. |
| A Blighty Wound | A wound that necessitates invaliding home. |
| Pucca | Real, genuine. |
| Rally up | A short period of considerable firing in the trenches. |
| Dug-out | A cramped dwelling-place, usually above ground. |
| Stand-to | An hour of preparedness at dawn and at dusk when every one is |
| awake and wears his equipment (in trenches and supports | |
| only). | |
| Stand-down | The finish of 'stand-to.' |
| Knife-Rests | Barbed wire in sections. |
| Cushy | A 'soft' thing. |
| To Go Sick | To report oneself ill to the doctor. |
| To Get Down to it | To lie down, go to bed. |
| Cribbing or Grousing | Complaining. |
| 20.5.15 | R. L. |
