manual exercise
English
Noun
manual exercise
- (military, historical) The military exercise by which soldiers are taught the use of their muskets and other arms.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for manual exercise under manual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)