LekhoriLekhoriA defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.
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.
A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.
To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
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.
To camp in a circular formation.
From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager and lair.
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That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high.