phalanxes in English

noun
1
a body of troops or police officers, standing or moving in close formation.
six hundred marchers set off, led by a phalanx of police
2
a bone of the finger or toe.
A calcined distal first phalanx was recovered from Unit B, Level 2, while Unit E, Level 4 contained a calcined distal third phalanx .

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1. Hoplite phalanxes usually deployed in ranks of 8 men or more deep; The Macedonian phalanxes were usually 16 men deep, sometimes reported to have been arrayed 32 men deep.

2. The Macedonian line was arrayed with the heavy phalanxes in the middle, and cavalry on either side.

3. 5 Investigations do, however, show instances where Neanderthal Man and Cro-Magnon Man transformed phalanxes already perforated by wolf bites.

4. Around 350 monks and nuns marched in two phalanxes, preceded by an Austin Westminster sedan, carrying banners printed in both English and Vietnamese.

5. Antigonus placed his phalanxes facing the Lacedaemonian infantry which was arrayed at the top of the two hills, with the order to advance and take the heights.