yeomanry
IPA: jˈoʊmʌnri
noun
- (historical) A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
- A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
Examples of "yeomanry" in Sentences
- Nine yeomanry regiments had been withdrawn from Palestine.
- But the American "yeomanry", that is, nine-tenths of the country, weren't having any.
- Places were to be kept by a detachment of the "yeomanry" of each company sent on at six o’clock for that purpose.
- True to his word, Jefferson started the University of Virginia to provide free higher education to the yeomanry, which is what the middle class was called back in the 1700s.
- These goshi, who were independent landowners, for the most part, formed a kind of yeomanry; but there were many points of difference between the social position of the goshi and that of the English yeomen.
- However, these were victims not of a recent riot but of an ancient fracas: the Peterloo massacre in Manchester in August 1819 – the event that led to the foundation of the Manchester Guardian – when a troop of yeomanry charged into a political meeting, leaving 15 dead.
- The perpetuation of a sturdy and independent yeomanry is one of the best guarantees we have for the perpetuation of democracy; and my faith is that democracy is the only system of government that is destined to last, the only system which contains within itself the seeds of continuity and life.
- He thinks that, corresponding to the countryman in New England, there were very moderately circumstanced whites in the South that might be taken as constituting a "yeomanry," but that below these were "the neglected people who ... were but little removed from the status of the settled Indian ....
- A writer already quoted refers to the poor whites of the ante-bellum South as constituting part of the last grade of a class distinguishable from both the unpropertied and the influential landowners, which might be termed a "yeomanry," but he notices their tendency to sink rather than rise in the social order. 16