trainband

American  

[treyn-band] / ˈtreɪnˌbænd /

noun

English History.

1. a company of trained militia organized in London and elsewhere in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

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trainband British  

/ ˈtreɪnˌbænd /

noun

1. a company of English militia from the 16th to the 18th century

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Etymology

Origin of trainband

1620–30; train(ed) ( def. ) + band ¹

Example Sentences

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trainband

Some of them, I knew, belonged to the trainband and were going off to get their weapons.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

I guess they were mostly from the Fairfield trainband.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

I hoped they weren’t trying to get the trainband organized to fight the British.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Next to the church, on the other side of Cross Highway was an empty field where the trainband practiced drilling.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Ward, /1/ the defendant set up that the plaintiff and he were skirmishing in a trainband, and that when discharging his piece he wounded the plaintiff by accident and misfortune, and against his own will.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell