Fencible Regiments.
A kind of militia raised in 1759, again in 1778–9, and again in 1794, when a force of 15,000 was raised. The force was disbanded in 1802.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.