The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.

A British volunteer cavalry force, growing out of a royal regiment of fox hunters raised by Yorkshire gentlemen in 1745 to fight the Pretender, Charles Edward; -- calle dalso yeomanry cavalry. The members furnish their own horses, have fourteen days' annual camp training, and receive pay and allowance when on duty. In 1901 the name was altered to imperial yeomanry in recognition of the services of the force in the Boer war. See Army organization, above.

class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Yeomanry, properly known as The Yeomanry League, is a political state of the Flanaess.

The position or rank of a yeoman.