trainband

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Definition of trainband

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(historical)A company of trained civilian militia operating in England and North America between the 16th and the 18th centuries.

“A train-band captain eke was he / Of famous London town.”
“Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis”

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Apparently a contraction of trained band.

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