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3-on-the-tree	On an automobile (especially those produced from 1939 through the mid-1970s), a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
3-on-the-tree	On an automobile, a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
auxilia arcessere	to summon auxiliary troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
battle cry	Something the troops yell out when going to war or battle.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
boots on the ground	This smacks of a military jargon. Troops deployed to confront enemy. Modern warfare can be conducted from helicopters, drones, bombers with remote directed missiles, rockets and missiles from ships.	Rate it: (4.67 / 3 votes)
boots on the ground	The ground forces actually fighting in a war or conflict, rather than troops not engaged or other military action such as air strikes.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
capere, occupare locum	to occupy a position (with troops).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cogere omnes copias in unum locum	to concentrate all the troops at one point.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
conducere, contrahere copias	to concentrate troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
copias castris continere	to keep the troops in camp.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cuneum facere (Liv. 22. 47)	to draw up troops in a wedge-formation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
escensionem facere (of troops)	to land, disembark.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
evocare undique copias	to call up troops from all sides.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fire at will	Fire when ready. A command that allows troops to use weapons at their discretion and choose their own targets, allowing the individual soldier a greater freedom of timing the shot with target movement and similar.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
firing line	The line from which soldiers fire their weapons at a target; especially the front line of troops in a battle	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
four-on-the-floor	A four-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted beside the driver on the floor of the vehicle.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
four-on-the-floor	Relating to a vehicle with a four-speed manual transmission mounted beside the driver on the floor of the vehicle.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
frumentum providere exercitui	to provide corn-supplies for the troops.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
imperare milites civitatibus	to compel communities to provide troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
integri et recentes defatigatis succedunt	fresh troops relieve the tired men.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
integros defatigatis summittere	to send fresh troops to take the place of those wearied with fighting.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
joust	A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
magnae copiae (not multae)	a large force, many troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
milites (exercitum) scribere, conscribere	to levy troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere	to take the troops to their winter-quarters.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
milites in terram, in terra exponere	to disembark troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
milites mercennarii or exercitus conducticius	mercenary troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
novissimis praesidio esse	to protect the troops in the rear.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
parare exercitum, copias	to equip an army, troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
praesidio castris milites relinquere	to leave troops to guard the camp.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
qui magnum in castris usum habent	veterans; experienced troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stipendium dare, numerare, persolvere militibus	to pay the troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
subsidia collocare	to station reserve troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
three-on-the-tree	On an automobile, describing the gearshift lever of a steering column-mounted three-speed manual transmission.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
three-on-the-tree	On an automobile, a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vetus miles, veteranus miles	veterans; experienced troops.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)