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laager  n.  A camp, especially one surrounded by a circular formation of travelers' wagons for temporary defense. (South Africa)
Synonyms: lager. "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."






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"Laager" Quotes from Famous Books



... sat upon a day in the kraal Umgugundhlovu, waiting till his impis should return from the Income that is now named the Blood River. He had sent them thither to destroy the laager of the Boers, and thence, as he thought, they would presently return with victory. Idly he sat in the kraal, watching the vultures wheel above the Hill of Slaughter, and round him stood ...
— Nada the Lily • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Laager" :   cantonment, bivouac, South Africa



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