cavalry
ka vuhl ree
- n troops trained to fight on horseback
- n a highly mobile army unit
- As a young man of undistinguished academic accomplishment he was admitted to Sandhurst after two failed attempts he entered the army as a cavalry officer.
- Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry.
- He led a group of cavalry officers who demanded that Nasser turn over all power to Naguib.