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Sergeant major

noun

A noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative officer of a headquarters unit of the Army. Synonym: command sergeant major.

Large blue-grey black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide. Synonym: Abudefduf saxatilis.

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"Sergeant major" Quotes from Famous Books

... W. Hearst resigned, and A.R. Drogie was made Surgeon in his stead, with Dr. G.H. Waddell as Assistant Surgeon. A.C. Stallworth, Sergeant Major, left for Virginia about the first of June and joined the Second ...

— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert

... historian I must confess that none of these assertions were quite true. We marched neither steadily, nor shoulder to shoulder, nor blade by blade. We straggled all over the road, and kept step only when the sergeant major doubled forward, warning us, with threats of extra drills, to keep in our fours or to "pick it up!" In fact, "the boys of the old brigade," whoever they may have been, would have scornfully repudiated the suggestion that we resembled them in ...

— Kitchener's Mob - Adventures of an American in the British Army • James Norman Hall

... anything or not,—if he stays he is done for. The sergeant major recognized him; he won't spare him. There is only one thing for him to do—to get away at once to the other ...

— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland

Words linked to "Sergeant major" : sergeant, damselfish, demoiselle, command sergeant major, Abudefduf, Abudefduf saxatilis, genus Abudefduf