Definitions for bandoleer

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bandoleer ban·do·leer

Spelling: [ban-dl-eer]

IPA: /ˌbæn dlˈɪər/

Bandoleer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 576 anagrams from letters in bandoleer (abdeelnor).

Definitions for bandoleer

noun

1. a broad belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers and having a number of small loops or pockets, for holding a cartridge or cartridges.

Origin of bandoleer

1570-80; earlier bandollier Middle French bandoulliere Catalan bandolera, feminine derivative of bandoler member of a band of men (bandol (Spanish bando band¹

Examples for bandoleer

Across his shoulder hung the strap of his bandoleer, or ammunition-box; at his side was his sword, and in his hand his arquebuse.

Barney stooped and removed the bandoleer of cartridges from the fallen trooper, as well as his revolver and carbine.

As for the captain, he had carried his over his shoulder by a bandoleer, and like a wise man, lock uppermost.

The matches mentioned were the slow-burning fuses, kept by a soldier in his bandoleer.

Churchmen, Presbyterians, and all, are in buff and bandoleer for King Charles.

My cartridges I wore in a bandoleer over one shoulder, and over the other I wore one of the old-fashioned game bags.

And now he was toiling up a steep cliff, and had slung his drum over his shoulder, and stuck his drumsticks in his bandoleer.

The soldier carried the powder charges in little metal boxes hung from a bandoleer.

At ten o'clock by his watch he fell-in his four Houssas, serving out to each a short carbine and a bandoleer.

Across his shoulder hung the strap of his bandoleer, or ammunition-box; at his side was his sword, and in his hand his arquebus.