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landsturm
[ German lahnt-shtoorm ]
noun
- a general draft of people in time of war.
- the force so drafted or subject to such draft, consisting of all who are capable of bearing arms and not in the army, navy, or Landwehr.
Landsturm
/ ˈ±ô²¹²Ô³Ùʃ³ÙÊŠ°ù³¾ /
noun
- a reserve force; militia
- a general levy in wartime
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of landsturm1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of landsturm1
Example Sentences
The gangs had names such as the Edelweiss Pirates, the Navajos, the Black Gang, the Lechler Landsturm.
From this day on he was under military law as a member of a Landsturm regiment.
Landsturm, lant′stÅÅrm, n. in Germany and Switzerland, a general levy in time of national emergency—in the former including all males between seventeen and forty-five: the force so called out.
An elderly Landsturm private armed with a loaded rifle and a saw-bayonet occupies one corner of our carriage, so that there is not much room to lie down.
October 31.—General von Bissing, commanding the district, inspected the Landsturm battalion here to-day.
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