单词 | out-quarter |
释义 | out-quartern. Now rare. 1. a. Military. Usually in plural. A station or quarter away from the headquarters of a regiment. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > at some distance from headquarters field station1610 out-quarter1645 1645 J. Rushworth Taking of Tiverton 2 Gorings horse (through the carelessnesse of some of our Guards) fell upon our out-quarters. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. Return of Prayers in Wks. (1831) I. 88 [He] that..sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier-garrison to be wise in. a1671 T. Fairfax Short Mem. (1699) 66 Sir John Henderson..gave the allarm to some of our out-quarters. 1807 R. Wilson Diary 11 Feb. in Life (1862) II. vii. 88 This morning I was preparing to go with General Beringsen to an out-quarter five English miles from hence. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 301 Opposite to the name of each Officer, who is employed at any out-quarter of the Regiment, the Station at which he is detached is to be stated. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 320/2 Small bodies of troops, when detached away from head-quarters of their regiment, are said to be at out quarters. b. gen. In plural. The outlying parts of a building, district, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > additional or separate part penthousea1400 wing1523 member1601 annexation1611 additionc1638 adject1784 annexe1829 extension1852 out-quarter1888 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > a surrounding space or area perimetera1637 periphery1759 out-quarter1888 1888 Dict. National Biogr. V. 519/2 Dartiquenave lived as became his position, about the court, in the outquarters of St. James's Palace. 1995 A. E. Nash in tr. E. de la Trinité Compl. Wks. II. i. 1 On August 2, 1901..twenty-four Sisters lived inside the monastery and two extern Sisters in the out-quarters. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > hoof > side of quarter1523 out-quarter1727 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cut Unshoe the Horse, and pare his Out-quarters, as before, if he Cuts behind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1645 |
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