[f. CAMEL + -RY (in sense 1 after cavalry).]
1. Troops mounted on camels.
1854. Liddell & Scott, Greek Lex., s.v. κάμηλος, ἡ κάμηλος, like ἡ ἴππος, the camels in an army, as one might say the camelry.
1883. G. A. Simcox, Latin Lit., II. VI. iv. 176. It was Crœsus who frightened his enemy’s cavalry by his camelry.
1885. Times, 2 July, 5/1. General Buller and the second half of the ‘Light Camelry’ … left Assouan to-day. Ibid., 16 July, 12/3. The Camelry is a new force in the British Army. It is neither, properly speaking, cavalry nor infantry…. A special flag had, therefore, been invented representing a black camel rampant upon a white ground.
2. ‘A place where camels are laden and unladen.’
1883. in Annandale, Imperial Dict.
