When kneeling or lying down in double rank, the rear rank does not load, aim, or fire.
In double rank, the positions of kneeling and lying down are ordinarily used only for the better utilization of cover.
ORDER, CLOSE: The formation in which the units, in double rank, are arranged in line or in column with normal intervals and distances.
In close order, all details, detachments, and other bodies of troops are habitually formed in double rank.
A double rank of soldiers made their appearance, occupying the whole breadth of the passage, with shouldered matchlocks, and matches burning, so as to present a row of fires in the dusk.
Another guard of soldiers, in double rank, brought up the rear.
Order, close:= The formation in which the units, in double rank, are arranged in line or in column with normal intervals and distances.
Double rank, habitual close order formation; uniformity of interval between files obtained by placing hand on hip.
Sometimes in double rank, and sometimes in single rank.
There were orders given very quietly, and another company, with black plumes on their hats, came up, and this first company was put in double rank.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "double rank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
