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Cavalry vs Yeomanry - What's the difference?

cavalry | yeomanry |

As nouns the difference between cavalry and yeomanry

is that cavalry is the military arm of service that fights while riding horses while yeomanry is a class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.

cavalry

Noun

(cavalries)
  • (military, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
  • (military, countable) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
  • (military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
  • Derived terms

    * heavy cavalry * light cavalry * mechanized cavalry

    References

    * Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. ISBN 978 2 87772 369 5, ISBN 2 87772 237 6

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    yeomanry

    English

    Noun

    (yeomanries)
  • A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
  • * Bancroft
  • The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion.
  • A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army.