Cossack

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cossack \Cos"sack\ (k?s"s?k), n. [Russ. kozak', kazak': cf.
     Turk. kaz[=a]k.]
     One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen,
     inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and
     furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its
     armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming


     the principal divisions.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Cossack
       n : a member of a Slavic people living in southern European
           Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted
           for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an
           elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia