martinet

  1. Noun.  (military) A strict disciplinarian.
  2. Noun.  (figuratively) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.
  3. Noun.  (zoology) The swallow-species martin.

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