A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. George Orwell
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. P. J. O'Rourke
With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal! Robert Orben
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. Ellen Key
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners. John Shelton Reed
corporal in Dutch is korporaal
corporal in French is cabot
corporal in German is Unteroffizier
corporal in Portuguese is cabo
corporal in Swedish is kroppslig, korpral
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