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laa·ger
(lä′gər)
n.
A defensive encampment encircled by armored vehicles or wagons.
intr.v.laa·gered, laa·ger·ing, laa·gers
To camp in a defensive encirclement.
[Alteration of obsolete Afrikaans lager, probably from German Lager, camp, lair, from Middle High German leger, bed, lair, from Old High German legar; see legh- in Indo-European roots.]
laager
(ˈlɑːɡə) or
lager
n
1. (in Africa) a camp, esp one defended by a circular formation of wagons
2. (Military) military a place where armoured vehicles are parked
vb
3. to form (wagons) into a laager
4. (tr) to park (armoured vehicles) in a laager
[C19: from Afrikaans lager, via German from Old High German legar bed, lair]
laa•ger
(ˈlɑ gər) n. South African.
1. an encampment, esp. within a protective circle of wagons.
v.i.
2. to camp in a laager.
[1840–50; < Afrikaans laer, earlier lager; see lair]
bivouac, camp, cantonment, encampment - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
Republic of South Africa, South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)
He had sent them thither to destroy the laager of the Boers, and thence, as he thought, they would presently return with victory.
The impi had been defeated by the banks of the Income; thousands had perished at the laager, mowed down by the guns of the Boers, thousands more had been drowned in the Income, till the waters were red and the bodies of the slain pushed each other under, and those who still lived walked upon them.
You represent everything the West loathes about white South Africans who ex who live extravagant lives in expensive laagers [large security-protected home].
The Europeans settlers used the cleavage in African societies, firearms, and the Africans "lacked the equipment to capture fortified positions or laagers composed of circles of wagons, and when Africans resorted to guerrilla tactics the invaders forced them into submission by attacking their food supplies.
