SERRIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serried mean? 

• SERRIED (adjective)
  The adjective SERRIED has 1 sense:

1. (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together

  Familiarity information: SERRIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERRIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together

Context example:

in serried ranks

Similar:

compact (closely and firmly united or packed together)

 Context examples 

The Spanish prisoner looked with exultant eyes upon the deep and serried ranks of his countrymen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Whilst the business of the fixing of the stakes and the fastening of the ropes was going forward, I from my place of vantage could hear the talk of the crowd behind me, the front two rows of which were lying upon the grass, the next two kneeling, and the others standing in serried ranks all up the side of the gently sloping hill, so that each line could just see over the shoulders of that which was in front.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)