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canton (iou)



canton verb. L16.
[Partly from CANTON noun1, partly from French cantonner to quarter, Italian cantonnare to canton, quarter.]
verb trans. Quarter, divide; share out; subdivide (into cantons). L16.
Defoe He Canton'd out the Country to his Men. C. Thirlwall They cantoned their great dioceses into Archdeaconries.
verb trans. Divide from or cut out of a whole. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
J. Locke They canton out to themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world.
verb trans. Heraldry. Provide with a canton or cantons; place in a canton. L17.
verb intrans. Take up quarters. L17.
verb trans. Quarter (soldiers); provide with quarters. E18.
cantoned ppl adjective (a) formed or divided into cantons; (b) quartered in cantonments; (c) Architecture having decorated angles: E17.