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单词 trainband
释义

trainband

English

Etymology

Apparently a contraction of trained band.

Noun

trainband (plural trainbands)

  1. (now historical) A company of trained civilian militia operating in England and North America between the 16th and the 18th centuries.
    • 1782, William Cowper, ‘The Diverting History of John Gilpen’:
      A train-band captain eke was he / Of famous London town.
    • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
      Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis

Anagrams

  • Brandtian, drinabant, intraband
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