[f. LAAGER sb.] trans. To form (wagons) into a laager; to encamp (persons) in a laager; also with up. Also absol. or intr. Hence Laagered ppl. a., Laagering vbl. sb.
1879. Daily Tel., 1 March, 3/1. The wagons were not ‘laagered’ or drawn up so close as to make it difficult to force the camp.
1881. Contemp. Rev., Feb., 222. The laagered waggon their sole protection.
1883. Standard, 17 May, 5/4. Four hundred Boers, laagered in Stilleland, have threatened to attack Mankoroane unless he consents to give them farms.
1894. Daily News, 14 Sept., 5/2. The Army Service Corps were drilled in laagering.
1896. Tablet, 22 Feb., 290. We stopped firing at about seven o’clock, and laagered up for the night.
