trooper

[Eng. troop; -er.] 1. A private soldier in a body of cavalry;; a horse soldier. "His old troopers , the Satans and Beelzebubs who had hared his crimes, and who now shared his perils, were ready to be the companions of his flight."- Macaulay : *tron-cō, a . [Ital., for tronc a to , pa. par. of tron- Hist . Eng ., ch. xiii. care to cut off, to suppre ; Lat. trunco.] Music: Cut off, made short; a term directing a sound to be cut short, or just uttered and then discontinued.