serried adj : (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together; "in serried ranks"

English

Adjective

serried

1. crowded together in rows

Quotations

• 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 45

  The Murris in their serried invisible ranks crowd around her.

Usage notes

• Used especially of ranks of troops.

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