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drumhead court-martials

drumhead court-martials is the plural of drumhead court-martial.

Meaning of drumhead court-martial

Noun

drumhead court-martial (plural drumhead court-martials)

  1. A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action.
    • So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old guard and the men of sixtyseven and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and transported for the cause by...1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Questions about drumhead court-martials

What is drumhead court-martials the plural of?
Drumhead court-martials is the plural of drumhead court-martial.

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