A military officer who commanded a company or troop, with a captain’s rank, and lieutenant’s pay. (The rank no longer exists.)
a. 1658. Cromwell, in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. II. 278. My captain-lieutenant slew him.
1745. Observ. conc. Navy, 48. In the Army there are Captain-Lieutenants whose Commissions are superiour to all other Lieutenants and inferiour to Captains.
1770. Davies, in Phil. Trans., LX. 187. Tho. Davies, Captain Lieutenant of Artillery.
c. 1880. Grant, Hist. India, I. lvi. 289/2. Captain-Lieutenant Clark … was struck on the breast by a spent ball.
