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Garrison   /gˈærɪsən/   Listen
Garrison

noun
1.
A fortified military post where troops are stationed.  Synonym: fort.
2.
United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879).  Synonym: William Lloyd Garrison.
3.
The troops who maintain and guard a fortified place.
verb
(past & past part. garrisoned; pres. part. garrisoning)
1.
Station (troops) in a fort or garrison.



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"Garrison" Quotes from Famous Books



... in with some of your guards from the Ganlook garrison day before yesterday. He learned that you were to reach that city within forty-eight hours. A large detachment of men has been sent to meet you ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... matrimonial character of the connection to be indicated by any public act, nor any necessity to prove the specific period when the consent was interchanged. This decision has been confirmed in the Dysart case (Geary, loc. cit.; cf. C.G. Garrison, "Limits of Divorce," Contemporary Review, Feb., 1894). Similarly, as decided by Justice Kekewich in the Wagstaff case in 1907, if a man leaves money to his "widow," on condition that she never marries again, although he has never been married to her, and though she ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... islands and set up a weather station on Pattle Island; maintenance was continued by its successor, Vietnam. China has occupied the Paracel Islands since 1974, when its troops seized a South Vietnamese garrison occupying the western islands. The islands are claimed by ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... month, the First Consul in person reviews all the troops of the consular guard, as well as those quartered in Paris, as a garrison, or those which may happen to be passing ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon
... it. Champlain had heard of the remedy used by Cartier, but the tribes which had been at Stadacona in Cartier's time had now disappeared, and there was no one to point out the old-time remedy to the suffering garrison. So the scourge went on unchecked. The ravages of disease were so severe that, when a relief ship arrived in the early summer of 1609, all but eight ...
— Crusaders of New France - A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness - Chronicles of America, Volume 4 • William Bennett Munro


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