Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trainband"
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.
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