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GARRISON
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for the law-enforcement officer of a parish, from Middle English, Old French conestable, cunestable, from Late Latin comes stabuli ‘officer of the stable’. The title was also borne by various other officials during the Middle Ages, including the chief officer of the household (and army) of a medieval ruler, and this may in some cases be the source of the surname.Americanized spelling of Dutch Constapel, an occupational name for the chief gunner aboard a ship or in the garrison of a fort.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Garrett.
Boy/Male
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Spear-fortified town.
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Spear Fortified Town; Son of Garret; Column of Conquest
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Spear Fortified Town; Form of Garrison; Column of Conquest
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v. t.
To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
n.
The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.
n.
A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.
n.
The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.
n.
A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
n.
The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing.
n.
A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse.
a.
Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.
v. t.
To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Garrison
n.
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
n.
A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.
n.
To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
v. t.
To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.
v. t.
To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
n.
One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
n.
A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.
n.
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
v. t.
To garrison to excess.
imp. & p. p.
of Garrison