cantonmentn.
/kanˈtɒnmənt//kanˈtuːnmənt/ 1. The cantoning or quartering of troops.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun]
quarterage1577
enquartering1639
billeting1640
cantonment1760
cantoning1844
1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. 35 No places of cantonment for soldiers.
2. The place of lodging assigned to a section of a force when cantoned out; also (often in plural) the place or places of encampment formed by troops for a more permanent stay in the course of a campaign, or while in winter quarters; ‘in India the permanent military stations are so termed’ (Stocqueler Mil. Encycl.).
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters
lodging1475
quarter1570
allodgement1598
lodgement1598
cantonment1756
billet1830
1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 554 They repaired to their respective cantonments.
1777 W. Heath in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 338 Every purpose..has been answered, by the troops in their present cantonment.
1813 Duke of Wellington Let. 22 Nov. in Dispatches (1838) XI. 311 The distress of the Spanish troops..induced me to order them into cantonments within the Spanish frontier.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 270 No Officer is on any account to sleep out of Camp or Cantonments without leave.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. v. 287 To withdraw from the cantonment to the Residency.
3. transferred. Quarters; places of occupation.
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1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 166 All hands now set to work to prepare a winter cantonment.
1875 tr. E. O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent & Darwinism 227 The Mammalia, whose extraction may be inferred..from a comparison of their present cantonments..with the encampments of their former kindred.
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