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trainbands


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trainband  \Train"band`\,  n.;  pl  {Trainbands}. 
  A  band  or  company  of  an  organized  military  force  instituted 
  by  James  I.  and  dissolved  by  Charles  II.;  --  afterwards 
  applied  to  the  London  militia.  [Eng.] 
 
  He  felt  that  without  some  better  protection  than  that 
  of  the  trainbands  and  Beefeaters,  his  palace  and  person 
  would  hardly  be  secure.  --Macaulay. 
 
  A  trainband  captain  eke  was  he  Of  famous  London  town. 
  --Cowper.