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• är'yer-bän, or ä-r[=e]r'ban, n. in feudal times, the sovereign's summons to all freemen to take the field: the army thus collected. [O. Fr. ariereban, Old High Ger. hari, army, and ban, public proclamation.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson