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raw recruit

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Noun1.raw recruit - an inexperienced and untrained recruit
military recruit, recruit - a recently enlisted soldier
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Making his way to Nashville, already occupied by the Army of General Buell, he enlisted in the first organization that he found, a Kentucky regiment of cavalry, and in due time passed through all the stages of military evolution from raw recruit to experienced trooper.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle; not the dead man's ghost encountering the first unknown phantom in the other world; --neither of these can feel stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of the hunted sperm whale.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Well, I was pretty proud at having this small command given me, since I was a raw recruit, and a game-legged one at that.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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