landsturm
Americannoun
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a general draft of people in time of war.
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the force so drafted or subject to such draft, consisting of all who are capable of bearing arms and not in the army, navy, or Landwehr.
noun
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a reserve force; militia
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a general levy in wartime
Etymology
Origin of landsturm
1805–15; < German: literally, land storm
Example Sentences
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From this day on he was under military law as a member of a Landsturm regiment.
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Landsturm, lant′stōōrm, n. in Germany and Switzerland, a general levy in time of national emergency—in the former including all males between seventeen and forty-five: the force so called out.
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An elderly Landsturm private armed with a loaded rifle and a saw-bayonet occupies one corner of our carriage, so that there is not much room to lie down.
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October 31.—General von Bissing, commanding the district, inspected the Landsturm battalion here to-day.
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In this way it was possible to increase the war establishment, excluding the Landsturm, by about half a million men without adding to the burden in time of peace.
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