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Raw recruit   /rɑ rəkrˈut/   Listen
Raw recruit

noun
1.
An inexperienced and untrained recruit.






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... side; —all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood; —all this was thrilling. Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle; not the dead man's ghost encountering .. the first unknown phantom in the other world; —neither of these can feel stranger and stronger emotions than that man ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville



Words linked to "Raw recruit" :   military recruit, recruit



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