fatigue party

English

Noun

fatigue party (plural fatigue parties)

  1. A group performing fatigue duty.
    • 1961, Georges Blond, Admiral Togo, page 36:
      Immediately after the heralds came the samurai vanguard, each man armed with his two swords; then a fatigue party of porters, bearing the princely luggage slung from the ends of bamboo poles carried yokewise across their shoulders.
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