laager's Usage Examples:

It is also known as a laager (from Afrikaans), especially in historical African contexts.

A laager, also known as a wagon fort.

The Russian-Cossack army went in laager formation.

wagons would force the wagons into an open column, instead of an enclosed laager as successfully employed defensively at Veglaer on 12 August 1838.

infantry manned the laager.

The gunners had been told that if the Zulus got in close they were to abandon their guns and make for the laager.

fearing a repeat of Isandlwana, Chelmsford ensured his men spent much time laagering and entrenching their camp at the end of each day.

(Afrikaans: drif, Dutch: drift) at which a Boer commando laagered during the Mapoch War of 1882; a laager is laer in Afrikaans.

had been laagered by its 120 white settlers after news arrived of the disaster at Isandlwana.

In the hot weather, conditions in the laager were poor.

defensive wagon fort, or laager.

They relied on their laager as a rallying point.

Cronjé then inadvisedly decided to form a laager and dig in on the banks of the Modder river.

Synonyms:

cantonment; encampment; camp; lager; bivouac;

Antonyms:

tasteful;