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free-ˈquarter Hist.
The obligation or impost of having to provide free board and lodging for troops; also, of the troops, the right to be billeted in free quarters, or else the necessity of having to find them for themselves. to live at free-quarter: to be maintained without expense to the government.
1648Petit. Eastern Ass. 17 Have not inforced Assessements, and free-quarter grated them as small? 1648Cromwell Lett. 15 Nov. in Carlyle, The Country is..not able to bear free-quarter; nor well able to furnish provisions if we had moneys. 1655― Sp. 22 Jan. ibid., These took advantage from..the stopping of the pay of the army, to run us into Free-quarter. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 63 Make Law and Equity as dear, As Plunder and Free-quarter were. 1818Cobbett in Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 524 An army must be sent into Yorkshire; but, they must live at free-quarter then.
Hence † free-ˈquarter v., to live at free-quarter; † free-ˈquarterer, one billeted in free quarters.
1648Prynne Plea for Lords C ij, As our free-quarterers doe now. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 16 As for evil Things, look on them but as Lodgers, (though as unwelcome as Free-quarterers). 1659To free-quarter [see freebooter v.]. |