English

Alternative forms

• lager

Noun

laager ‎(plural laagers)

1. A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.
   • James Bryce

     Wagons […] can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts.

2. (military) A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with: lager beer.

See also

• laager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• circle the wagons

Verb

laager ‎(third-person singular simple present laagers, present participle laagering, simple past and past participle laagered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
   • H. Rider Haggard

     At the foot of this isolated mount, whereof the aspect somehow filled me with alarm, we camped on the night of January 21, taking no precautions against attack by way of laagering the wagons.

2. (intransitive) To camp in a circular formation.
   • 2000, Jeff Dossett, Delayed Detonation (page 44)

     That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high.

Anagrams

• aglare
• alegar

Estonian

Etymology

From German Lager. Etymological twin of leer.

Noun

laager ‎(genitive laagri, partitive laagrit)

1. camp
2. bearing (mechanical device)

Declension