Fatigue duty is the labor assigned to military men that does not require the use of arms. Parties sent on fatigue duty were known in English by the French term `detachemens` according to an 1805 military dictionary. == History == The term is recorded in America in 1776, and in an 1805 British military dictionary. In the United States, the allowa.....
[n] - labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on)
fatigue noun labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); `the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson`; `they were assigned to kitchen fatigues`