The word rank has multiple meanings. Which of the following definitions most closely matches its meaning in the following excerpt? If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's
great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the
Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club
A noun la relative position in a hierarchy
B. noun a single line of soldiers, side by side
C. verb I to give (someone or something) an order within an assessment system
D. verb to occupy a place within a system