Definition of "working-party" [working-party]

• A party of soldiers told off for mechanical or manual work, as in the repair of fortifications, or the building of a causeway or a bridge. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Blenkiron and I lay like a working-party between the lines caught by machine-guns, taking a pull on ourselves as best we could."
• "I ran through the arch into the garden, across which Australians were picketed in lines, and asked them for a working-party."
• "He had even thought of recruiting that young man into his working-party of able-bodied and devoutly inclined helpers, to make sure that he spent the day away from anywhere Godith might be."