Definitions for bandoleers

bandoleers ban·do·leer

Spelling: [ban-dl-eer]
IPA: /ˌbæn dlˈɪər/

Bandoleers is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1087 anagrams from letters in bandoleers (abdeelnors).

Definitions for bandoleers

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 bandoleers

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 bandoleers

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for bandoleers
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