(n.) Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc.
(n.) Any marine fish of the genus Macrurus, in which the body and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called also onion fish, and rat-tail fish.
(n.) A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duke of Edinburgh attended in his role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
(2) Jacqui Janes, the mother of Grenadier Guardsman Jamie Janes, who was killed in Afghanistan on 5 October, received the letter days after her son's death.
(3) Keith Simpson, who served as William Hague’s parliamentary private secretary during his four years as home secretary, told the Guardian: “A number of colleagues will, either in their speeches during the debate or in the form of interventions, raise serious questions because they do have concerns about the overall coalition strategy, about means and ends, whether you can continue air strikes just on Iraq targets or whether pressure will be brought to bear on us to include targets in Syria.” Adam Holloway, the Conservative MP for Gravesham, who served with the Grenadier Guards during the first Gulf war, told the Guardian: “It has just not been thought through.
(4) Brigadier David Maddan, Regimental Lieutenant Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, recalled how on a previous tour of Afghanistan in 2007, Chant single-handedly carried a seriously injured soldier in full kit to safety.
(5) But where are the marines, the Grenadiers, the Blues and Royals?
(6) International events with a British theme helped raise the brand’s profile, with London streets recreated in a Shanghai warehouse and James Corden, the Beckhams and the Queen’s Grenadier Guards starring at a one-off fashion show in Los Angeles in April.
(7) Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook could not explain why he stabbed the boy in the kidneys in an unprovoked attack when he was hungover after a heavy session drinking vodka.
(8) William Ferrand said his nephew, Sergeant Matthew Telford , joined the Grenadier Guards at the age of 16.
(9) Sergeant Nick Johnson, of 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, knew WO1 Chant and Sgt Telford as close friends.
(10) Robert Nairac Photograph: Press Eye A 29-year-old old captain in the Grenadier Guards, Nairac disappeared in May 1977 after being abducted by the IRA from a pub in South Armagh, where he is said to have been attempting to pass himself off as a republican from Belfast.
(11) The most deadly day of the year came in what qualifies as a friendly-fire incident when an Afghan policeman at a checkpoint near Nad e-Ali turned his gun on Darren Chant, Matthew Telford and James Major of 1st Battalion the Grenadier Guards and Steven Boote and Nicholas Webster-Smith of the Royal Military Police, killing them all.
(12) The gaffe followed a series of front-page articles in Rupert Murdoch's tabloid taking the prime minister to task for a series of mistakes, including spelling Janes's surname as "James" in a condolence letter over the death of her Grenadier Guardsman son Jamie Janes in Afghanistan.
(13) Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was suffering from a hangover after a heavy vodka drinking session when he bayoneted the boy, who was running an errand.
(14) Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 40, Regimental Sergeant Major of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was the most senior of five UK servicemen shot dead by an officer they had been training in southern Afghanistan on 3 November.
(15) Among the fallen was Sergeant Matthew Telford of the Grenadier Guards, the first of the dead soldiers to be named.
(16) The soldiers – three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military police – were killed by gunshot wounds suffered in the attack, which happened in the Nad-e'Ali district yesterday.
(17) The court martial heard that the boy was running an errand when he was bayoneted by Grenadier guardsman Daniel Crook, who had a hangover from a heavy vodka drinking session.
(18) The 40-year-old, born in Walthamstow, north-east London, died alongside Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman James Major, 18, also from the Grenadier Guards; and Corporal Steven Boote, 22, and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military Police.
(19) My father was a Queen's Messenger and a colonel in the Grenadier Guards."
(20) After beginning his army career at the age of 16, he joined 1st Battalion the Grenadier Guards when he was 18.
Waxbill
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) This yeast was not isolated from droppings of 13 small parrots, 10 eclectus parrots, 13 rosellas, 21 cockatiels, 6 Polytelidus sp., 32 Cacatua sp., 13 Carduelis sp., 5 waxbills, 5 starlings, 120 chicken, 9 turkeys, 2 geese, 2 Turdus sp., 1 duck and 1 gull.
(2) in the intestines of waxbills caused disease and death, particularly in the younger birds.