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What is a yeomanry?

What is a yeomanry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
  2. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
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Revolution was not to be encouraged, though, and the yeomanry turned protest into a bloodbath at Peterloo.
It was a yeomanry regiment, I think perhaps the Warwickshires.
The enclosing movement was attacked on various grounds. To its effects were attributed the disappearance of the yeomanry, using the words in the strict sense of farmer-owners.
Boards of highly paid, bonus-rich directors seem to be bunkered down behind a dithering yeomanry of press officers and media advisers as the regulatory cavalry charges in.
The volunteer forces, especially the yeomanry, had been politically dependable.
This decline, not surprisingly, has engendered a dour mood among much of the yeomanry.

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