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Laager
Definitions
- 1 A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.
"Wagons […] can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts."
- 2 a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons wordnet
- 3 A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.
- 1 To arrange in a circular formation for defence. transitive
"At the foot of this isolated mount, whereof the aspect somehow filled me with alarm, we camped on the night of January 21, taking no precautions against attack by way of laagering the wagons."
- 2 To camp in a circular formation. intransitive
"That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high."
Etymology
From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager and lair.
From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager and lair.
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