Laager Definition

lägər
laagers
noun
laagers
A temporary camp within an encircling barricade of wagons, etc.
Webster's New World
A defensive encampment encircled by armored vehicles or wagons.
American Heritage
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verb
To camp in a laager.
Webster's New World
To form into a laager.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Laager

Noun

Singular:
laager
Plural:
laagers

Origin of Laager

  • Alteration of obsolete Afrikaans lager probably from German Lager camp, lair from Middle High German leger bed, lair from Old High German legar legh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Afrikaans leger, lager (“camp”).

    From Wiktionary

Laager Sentence Examples

  • The plateau at its foot was the site of the English laager during the war of 1880-81, and is now occupied by the central railway station and workshops.

  • They're turning back from the front and hurrying up their rear so as to form laager round their big guns.

  • Six hundred Bohemian handgunners defended the tabor laager at the battle of Varna in 1444 AD.

  • From these wagons Zizka created a method of rapidly deploying a defensive wagon laager, in essence a mobile fort.

  • Rawlinson captured a laager and guns at Klerksdorp, and, though neither De Wet nor De la Rey had been brought to book, matters had so far improved in May that municipal government was given to Johannesburg, and a certain number of mines were allowed to recommence working.

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Words Starting With

LLALAA

Words Ending With

RERGER

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