To mount a corporal and four; to be guilty of onanism: the thumb is the corporal, the four fingers the privates.
·adj Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. II. Corporal ·adj ·Alt. of <<Corporale>>. III. Cor...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In a ship of war was, under the master-at-arms, employed to teach the sailors the use of small arms;...
The Sailor's Word-Book
So called because the witness when he swears lays his right hand on the holy evangelists, or New Tes...