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n. The class of yeomen; small freeholding farmers.

n. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 to serve as a home guard and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.

n. Class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.

n. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army.

n. The position or rank of a yeoman.

n. The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.

n. A British volunteer cavalry force, growing out of a royal regiment of fox hunters raised by Yorkshire gentlemen in 1745 to fight the Pretender, Charles Edward; -- calle dalso yeomanry cavalry. The members furnish their own horses, have fourteen days' annual camp training, and receive pay and allowance when on duty. In 1901 the name was altered to imperial yeomanry in recognition of the services of the force in the Boer war. See Army organization, above.

n. The collective estate or body of yeomen; yeomen collectively.

n. Service; retainers; those doing a vassal's service.

n. That which befits a yeoman.

n. A volunteer cavalry force originally embodied in Great Britain during the wars of the French revolution, and consisting to a great extent of gentlemen or wealthy farmers.

n. a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army

n. class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land

"The perpetuation of a sturdy and independent yeomanry is one of the best guarantees we have for the perpetuation of democracy; and my faith is that democracy is the only system of government that is destined to last, the only system which contains within itself the seeds of continuity and life."

home guard    social class    stratum    socio-economic class    class   

yeomanry act   

yeoman   

yeomanry cavalry    imperial yeomanry    army organization   

proletariat    landowner    folk    gentry    commoner    ingrates    panzer    tradespeople    peasant-girl    freeholders