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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The position or rank of a yeoman.

[Obs.]

“His estate of yeomanry.”

Chaucer.

The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.

The enfranchised

yeomanry

began to feel an instinct for dominion.

Bancroft.

Yeomanry cavalry

certain bodies of volunteer cavalry liable to service in Great Britain only.

[Eng.]

Noun.

The collective body of yeomen or freeholders. Thus the common people in America, are called yeomanry.

yeomanry ‎(plural yeomanries)

A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
- Bancroft
  The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion.
A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.