Rating | Solver | Clue |
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GRENADIER | Foot soldier | |
INFANTRYMAN | Foot soldier | |
BRIGAND | A light-armed, irregular foot soldier. | |
FOOTMAN | A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier. | |
PEON | A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. | |
GALLOWGLASS | A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward / | |
DRAGOON | Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man. | |
HAIDUCK | Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts. | |
KERN | A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt. | |
PIKE | A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. | |
LANSQUENET | A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe. |