Definition of "skirmishers" [skirmishers]

• Plural form of skirmisher. (noun)

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• "A whistle sounded ahead, calling the skirmishers back to the British battalion's other nine companies."
• "And among the skirmishers were the Rifles, the men of the Ninety-fifth."
• "The brave Negro troops went forward at a double-quick; the skirmishers were the first to reach the embankments, and were greeted with a shower of bullets which tumbled many headlong and lifeless into the pits."