English

Noun

lance-jack ‎(plural lance-jacks)

1. (slang) A lance-corporal or lance-bombadier.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 44:

     They made him a lance-jack; but it was only because they wanted somebody tall at the end of the front rank to fix bayonets by.