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‖ landwehr|ˈlandvɛːr|
[Ger. = ‘land-defence’.]
In Germany and some other countries, that part of the organized land forces (corresponding to the militia of Great Britain) of which continuous service is required only in time of war. Also transf. (quot. 1855).
1815Hel. M. Williams Pres. St. France xiv. 313 A great part of these troops were of the landwehr, or Prussian levy in mass. 1855Grote Greece ii. xcii. (1856) XII. 77 The poor and hardy Landwehr of Macedonia, constantly on the defensive against predatory neighbours. 1866Cornh. Mag. Nov. 552 To every district was assigned a detachment of the Landwehr proportionate to its population. 1878Seeley Stein II. 130 The Prussian Landwehr dates..from 1813.
b. attrib., as landwehr man.
1866Cornh. Mag. Nov. 553 The Landwehrmen were to provide their own uniforms. |