court-martials in English

noun
1
a judicial court for trying members of the armed services accused of offenses against military law.
they appeared before a court-martial
verb
1
try (someone) by a court-martial.

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1. When called up he refused to handle a gun, and by July 1916 he faced the first of five court-martials, being sentenced to 90 days in prison.