All 3 Uses of
garrison
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- —Devil a much, says I. There's a bloody big foxy thief beyond by the garrison church at the corner of Chicken lane—old Troy was just giving me a wrinkle about him—lifted any God's quantity of tea and sugar to pay three bob a week said he had a farm in the county Down off a hop-of-my-thumb by the name of Moses Herzog over there near Heytesbury street.†
Chpt 12
- He urged me to do likewise, to misbehave, to sin with officers of the garrison.†
Chpt 15 *
- Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, a volumes, with gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso of cover).†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(garrison) a military post or the troops stationed there
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, garrison can be used as a verb to reference the placing of troops at a post.