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My prejudice is that they were originally support troops used to manage and defend the supply train of an army. However, by the time John Walker published his dictionary in 1791, he saw the meaning as "TRAINBANDS, The militia, the part of a community trained to martial exercise."
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the idea of a merge, and agree that they duplicate one another (both discusing
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Agree; and also note that an appropriate hatnote is already present at that page.
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