英语词汇“free、quarter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

free-quarter

释义

free-ˈquarter Hist.
The obligation or impost of having to provide free board and lodging for troops; also, of the troops, the right to be billeted in free quarters, or else the necessity of having to find them for themselves. to live at free-quarter: to be maintained without expense to the government.
1648Petit. Eastern Ass. 17 Have not inforced Assessements, and free-quarter grated them as small?1648Cromwell Lett. 15 Nov. in Carlyle, The Country is..not able to bear free-quarter; nor well able to furnish provisions if we had moneys.1655― Sp. 22 Jan. ibid., These took advantage from..the stopping of the pay of the army, to run us into Free-quarter.a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 63 Make Law and Equity as dear, As Plunder and Free-quarter were.1818Cobbett in Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 524 An army must be sent into Yorkshire; but, they must live at free-quarter then.
Hence † free-ˈquarter v., to live at free-quarter; † free-ˈquarterer, one billeted in free quarters.
1648Prynne Plea for Lords C ij, As our free-quarterers doe now.1654Whitlock Zootomia 16 As for evil Things, look on them but as Lodgers, (though as unwelcome as Free-quarterers).1659To free-quarter [see freebooter v.].

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