Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where camels are brought to be laden or unladen.
- noun Troops mounted on camels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Troops that are mounted on camels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military A military arm of service that fights while riding
camels .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is camelry, this is floodens, this is the solphereens in action, this is their mobbily, this is panickburns.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Turks had come on with three battalions and a number of mule-mounted infantry and camelry.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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The Egyptian troopers and the camelry went to their usual place upon the right.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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As for the cavalry and camelry, spread over a wide front, their duty was to search for the enemy and make sure the troops should have ample warning of the approach of any dervishes.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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This fine body of Indian cavalry and camelry reported that affairs seemed serious up the Tiban valley; then inertia reasserted itself and they were recalled.
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The Egyptian army which was to take the field consisted of one division of four brigades, each of four battalions with artillery, cavalry and camelry.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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The Egyptian cavalry under Colonel Broadwood and the camelry under Major Tudway, making a wide détour, got close to the dervish left, and engaged the enemy occasionally with rifles and Maxims.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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Besides the four brigades of Khedivial infantry, together with artillery, cavalry, and camelry, and minor details, the Egyptian army also included a large transport column of some 2800 camels and about as many men.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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When Macdonald's fight was over, the Egyptian cavalry under Colonel Broadwood returned and formed up near the camelry.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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The Egyptian cavalry and camelry were picketed at the north of the camp, and the 21st Lancers at the south end, both being within the lines.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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