corporalship

noun

the lowest-ranking noncommissioned officer, just below a sergeant; specif., an enlisted person in the fourth grade in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps

Origin: < Fr caporal < It caporale, a corporal < capo, chief, head < L caput, head: sp. infl. by assoc. with corps or corporal

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