2. (Mil.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a
partisan officer or corps.
[1913 Webster]
{Partisan ranger} (Mil.), a member of a partisan corps. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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