Cavalry vs Yeomanry - What's the difference?
cavalry | yeomanry |
(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.
A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
* Bancroft
A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
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
English
(wikipedia cavalry)Noun
(cavalries)Derived terms
* heavy cavalry * light cavalry * mechanized cavalryReferences
* 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 6Anagrams
*yeomanry
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Noun
(yeomanries)- The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion.