Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Martinet

Martinet , noun

[So called from an officer of that name in the French army under Louis XIV. Compare Martin the bird, Martlet.]

In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]

Martinet , noun

[French]

(Zoology) The martin.