† ploymentn.
Military. Obsolete.
The formation of a column of troops from a line; an instance of this.
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1861 H. L. Scott Mil. Dict. 348 The chef-d'œuvre of art consists in..the ployments and deployments of columns of attack and the formation of squares against cavalry.
1865 J. Lippitt Treat. on Tactical Use of Three Arms 13 A rapid ployment into close column double on the centre.
1875 Internat. Rev. May 304 The company column is formed in line to the front by means inverse to those used in the ployment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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