Both Uses of
garrison
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
- In the middle of it there is one single rock which appears above water, and may, therefore, easily be avoided; and on the top of it there is a tower, in which a garrison is kept; the other rocks lie under water, and are very dangerous.†
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- When a town is surrendered to them, they take it into their protection; and when they carry a place by storm they never plunder it, but put those only to the sword that oppose the rendering of it up, and make the rest of the garrison slaves, but for the other inhabitants, they do them no hurt; and if any of them had advised a surrender, they give them good rewards out of the estates of those that they condemn, and distribute the rest among their auxiliary troops, but they themselves take no share of the spoil.†
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.