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Consolidate

From The Great War On This Day

To Consolidate: To take measures for holding a captured position to meet a counter-attack. The word was used colloquially with a variety of meanings: in courting, for instance, to make good one's advances to a girl. [1]

References / notes

  1. Edward Fraser and John Gibbons (1925). Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Routledge, London p.62.
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