English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "burgermag" is 'n militêre mag wat saamgestel is uit burgerlikes wat nie deel van die gewone weermag is nie, maar wat vir militêre diens in noodgevalle of ter verdediging van hul land opgeroep kan word. Milisies word dikwels op plaaslike of staatsvlak georganiseer en kan bestaan uit vrywilligers wat minimale opleiding ontvang en tipies met hul eie wapens gewapen is.

Sentence Examples

  1. Along the cave, mounted in giant sticks, were the half-gnawed bodies of any rulku unfortunate enough to cross his militia of bears.
  2. He was the leader of a big militia that ran around killing people when all this started.
  3. He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged, and had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county, then embodied.
  4. All wormholes stopped, however, parsecs from the Core, near the militia base of Hown, led by General Soren Satorus.
  5. The militia returned their fire to the infected, spraying them with shotguns and automatic rifles.
  6. I have often seen the militia of Lorbrulgrud drawn out to exercise in a great field near the city, of twenty miles square.
  7. But when he goes abroad on solemn days, he is attended, for state, by a militia guard of five hundred horse, which indeed I thought was the most splendid sight that could be ever beheld, till I saw part of his army in battalia, whereof I shall find another occasion to speak.
  8. They turned on the boom box again and played a canned speech by Grissom Wells, a militia bigshot, I assumed.
  9. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, &c.
  10. He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening.