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cantoned, ppl. a. (see the vb.) [f. canton n.1 and v. + -ed.] 1. Formed or divided into cantons.
1611Cotgr., Cantonné, cantonned, or cantonnized; seuered from the rest of their fellows, and fortified, or quartered apart. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Skiamachia Wks. (1711) 195 Conform to the government of a republick and cantoned towns. 1869A. W. Ward tr. Curtius' Hist. Greece II. iii. i. 259 The cantoned associations of Arcadia. 2. Quartered in cantonments.
1790Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 169 The army cantoned in the neighbourhood of Dunkirk. 1877Clery Min. Tact. ii. 20 Troops cantoned in and about the town. 3. Arch. (See quot.)
1727–51Chambers Cycl. 1876Gwilt Arch. Gloss., Cantoned building, one whose angles are decorated with columns, pilasters, rustic groins, or anything projecting beyond the naked of the wall. 4. Her. See canton v. 6. |