yeomanry in English

noun
1
a group of men who held and cultivated small landed estates.
The enclosing movement was attacked on various grounds. To its effects were attributed the disappearance of the yeomanry , using the words in the strict sense of farmer-owners.

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1. The yeomanry arrived and carted forty-four rioters off to Oxford gaol.

2. He had been Lord Marchmain's servant in the yeomanry.

3. Between her first and second missions she was commissioned an ensign in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.

4. Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry. 

5. Four troops of yeomanry were held in reserve in Luton but were not needed.

6. Most families prominent in the iron trade came from the yeomanry and lesser gentry, though there were a few bigger men.

7. 16 Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry. 

8. He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt.

9. Plantation Economy and White Yeomanry Economy are the two main kinds of economic form of Ante-bellum Rural South in the United States.

10. The Protestant yeomanry still rode around the countryside intent on driving home the lessons of 17 Rebellion will be punished!

11. The yeomanry has been appearing in the history of China and England, however, they walk out different roads by themselves with the development of human society.

12. The Northamptonshire Yeomanry was now launched forward again to exploit this success, only to run into Peiper's Panthers and more StuG IIIs in hull-down firing positions.

13. 2nd Infantry Division directly reinforced Baor and AFCENT and was responsible for the security of the Corps Rear Area.The Division included 1 regular and 2 TA Brigades, with each TA Brigade including a Fox mounted Yeomanry Recce Regiment

14. His monument survives in Exeter Cathedral.In the later 19th century, the house was occupied by Alfred Robert Hole (1815-1898), Justice of the Peace for Devon and Major, 13th Hussars, North Devon Yeomanry.

15. The 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) (4th CLY), with a company of the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, was to pass through Villers-Bocage and occupy the highest point of the ridge at Point 213.

16. A visit to Reading or Abingdon twice a year, at Assizes or quarter sessions, which the Squire made on his horse with a pair of saddle-bags containing his wardrobe, a stay of a day or two at some country neighbour's, or an expedition to a county ball or the yeomanry review, made up the sum of the Brown locomotion in most years.