Laager

Quick meaning: Laager is a noun meaning A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.

Meaning

A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.

More Meanings

1. (military) A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.
2. (transitive) To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
3. (intransitive) To camp in a circular formation.

Example Sentences

That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high.

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.

At the foot of this isolated mount, whereof the aspect somehow filled me with alarm, we camped on the night of January 21, taking no precautions against attack by way of laagering the wagons.

“And for how long d'you think you're going to be safe in the cities?” Louis persisted. “Just a matter of time, then our frontiers will shrink as we draw our little laager more and more tightly.”

Word Forms

• laagers
• laagering
• laagered

Synonyms for laager

Depending on context, synonyms include lager.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lager, lapa, lobby, lolwapa, stalag, kraal.

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