Service performed on land; military, as opposed to naval, service.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 123. Seeing wherein the Sea-discipline differed from Land-service.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., I. ii. 154. As I was then aduised by my learned Councel, in the lawes of this Land-seruice, I did not come.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, Ded. f 3. I Writ not always in the proper terms of Navigation, Land-Service, or in the Cant of any Profession.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 57. A good army for land-service.
1801. T. S. Surr, Splendid Misery, II. 194. Salano, a Neapolitan pirate originally … took to the land service afterwards, and committed murders out of number.
1819. Byron, Juan, I. iv. The prince is all for the land-service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis.
