laager

NOUN
  1. a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons
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How To Use laager In A Sentence

  • The Mediterranean was sighted for the first time and we laagered on the edge of the Sinai desert.
  • They got careless about how they set up, and Sergeant Chavez was inside the laager before they knew about it. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
  • What is instead being dangled in front of Ulster's Unionists is a retreat into the laager.
  • He has to walk, trot, canter, gallop, and "tripple" all around the laager several times, amidst the badinage and laughter of the burghers, and he gets enough "chaff" during the journey to last the biggest horse in England a lifetime. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
  • The commando laagered on the ridge, from which they ventured down the Opathe Gorge on 27 December 1838 to raid livestock.
  • Chelmsford deliberately did not entrench or laager, determined to show that his troops could face Zulus in the open.
  • We can retreat to our national laagers, which would be an economic disaster, or we can build an interdependent world that works. Globalisation can work, but only with a unified international plan | Will Hutton
  • She said the DP lacked the courage to form a mainstream alliance with the NP, but would consider a "white laager alliance with the far right, based on as Tony Leon put it, the 'gatvol' phenomenon rather than principled politics". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Here we heard that Moselikatse was advancing to make an end of us, so we made our laager as strong as we could, lashing the disselboom of each waggon beneath the framework of that before it and filling the spaces beneath and between with the crowns and boughs of sharp-thorned mimosa trees, which we tied to the trek tows and brake chains so that they could not be torn away. Swallow: a tale of the great trek
  • The second notion emphasises the traits that split America into hostile ethnic laagers and deny its essential multiculturalism.
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