单词 | to straiten quarters |
释义 | > as lemmasto straiten (a person's) quarters ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (intransitive)] to straiten (a person's) quarters1703 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 97 The winning of Cirencester..which..being upon the edge of Wilt-shire, Berk-shire, and Oxford-shire, shrewdly streighten'd the King's Quarters. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. x. 395 Distressing him by straitening his quarters. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxx. 150 The Barbarian was gradually invested, on every side, by the troops of the West..; his quarters were straightened; his convoys were intercepted. < as lemmas |
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