[Ger. = lit. ‘land-storm.’] In Germany, Switzerland, etc., a general levy in time of war; the forces so called out; the militia force consisting of those men not serving in the army or navy or in the landwehr.
1814. Alpine Sk., i. 20. We were amused by seeing some skirmishing between about sixty Cossacks … and a strong party of the landstrum [sic].
1866. Cornh. Mag., Nov., 553. The ‘Landsturm’ … should only be employed in the home districts.
1874. Miss R. H. Busk, Tirol, ix. 288. The Landsturm was out.
