Yeomanry
[jәumәnri]
Definition
(noun.) a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
(noun.) class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
Checker: Victoria--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The position or rank of a yeoman.
(n.) The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
(n.) The yeomanry cavalry.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Body of yeomen.
Typist: Virginia
Examples
- The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Thus speaking, he opened another hutch, and took out from it a couple of broadswords and bucklers, such as were used by the yeomanry of the period. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The public services to which the yeomanry were bound, were not less arbitrary than the private ones. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They ought to make me a magistrate and a captain of yeomanry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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