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- verb Present participle of
canton .
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Examples
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Those at the meeting were also "working towards ending hostilities, and cantoning, disarming and demobilising troops," he added.
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I am cantoning ours at Salisbury, Guilford, Hillsborough, and Cross creek.
Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903
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I am cantoning ours at Salisbury, Guilford, Hillsborough, and Cross creek.
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched John Frederick Schroeder 1852
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The _Red Ensign_, a plain red Flag cantoning a Union Jack -- having a
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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The first specification (which seer, page 14.) respects the choice of a site for cantoning the second regiment.
Trial of Col. Thomas H. Cushing Before a General Court Martial: Which Sat at ... Thomas Humphrey Cushing, Wade Hampton 1812
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Notwithftanding all the lofl'es the Romans had fuftained, they continued the blockade of Lilybaei | m with invincible fortitude, cantoning all their troops in the neighbourhood, determined, if poffiblc, to carry the place.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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