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Definition of laager :
1. A camp, esp. one with an inclosure of travelers' wagons for temporary defense.
2. To form into, or camp in, a laager, or protected camp.
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- Waggons drawn up in laager. - "Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose", Grant Allen.
- Commandant Snyman had given us no time in which to remove our women and children, and, as a consequence, we established somewhat hurriedly a laager, in which they were confined and which it was hoped would be beyond the fire of the Boer, since we afforded it the protection of the Red Cross flag. - "The Siege of Mafeking (1900)", J. Angus Hamilton.
- This army succeeded in cutting off and murdering one or two stragglers, but it was defeated at Vechtkop by the small laager of Sarel Celliers, where the Boer women distinguished themselves by deeds of striking heroism. - "A Century of Wrong", F. W. Reitz.
