Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COR'PO-RAL-SHIP
COR'PO-RAL-SHIP, n. [from corporal.]
A corporal's command in a Russian company, or a division of twenty-three men. Each squadron consists of two companies, and each of these, of three corporalships or sixty-nine men who come in the front. – Tooke.
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