laager
IPA: ɫˈɑgɝ
noun
- A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.
- (military) A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.
verb
- (transitive) To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
- (intransitive) To camp in a circular formation.
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Examples of "laager" in Sentences
- He was shot while trying to climb the laager.
- Men of the 75th Regiment entrenching a laager.
- Gruetli and Laager merged and incorporated in 1980.
- Covering from Kelly's laager and went the rest of the way on foot.
- The laager was sited on a 300 foot ridge running roughly west east.
- BT the story with the Hungarians' laager doesn't go togehter either.
- As usual, the ox wagons were drawn into a protective enclosure or laager.
- The Boers established a defensive enclosure or laager before the Zulu attack.
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