Sheltron


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Sheltron

 a band or army; a battalion, 1205; a compact body of ships, 1400.
Example: the sheltron of Christ (the army of Christians), 1425.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Of these, two words surviving in Middle English are trume |troop', found in Layamon, Hali Meiohad, and Havelok; and sheltron |phalanx', in Layamon, Sir Orfeo, Robert Mannyng's Chronicle, Barbour, Morte Arthure, the Wycliffite Bible, Trevisa, and Langland.
Old English trum 'strong,' truma 'host': Welsh trwm 'heavy.'

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