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| yeomanry [ yṓmənri ] |
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1. farmers with small freeholdings: in England in former times, a class of commoners who owned and cultivated their own land
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2. former British cavalry force: a British cavalry force, organized as a home guard in 1761, that became part of the Territorial Army in 1907
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