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Definition of Basing
1. base [v] - See also: base
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basing
Literary usage of Basing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Railroads: Rates and Regulation by William Zebina Ripley (1912)
"Contrast between the basing point and trunk line systems,. ... Three types of
basing point, 387. — Purely artificial ones exemplified, 388. ..."
2. Moving the Force: Desert Storm & Beyond by Scott W. Conrad (1996)
"FORWARD basing AND PRE-POSITIONING Forward basing of forces and pre-positioning
of equipment and supplies were critical to our employment of an offensive ..."
3. Digest of Decisions of the Courts and Interstate Commerce Commission Under by Edward Beauchamp Peirce (1908)
"Bates from various interstate points to Ki-anwr, Ga., were made by adding to the
through rate to a recognized basing point the local rate from the basing ..."
4. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"On the 14th of October, 1645, during the civil wars, basing-house was taken ...
In 871, a bloody battle was fought at basing between the Danes and Saxons ..."
5. Liber Monasterii de Hyda by Hyde abbey, Winchester, Eng (1866)
"To this day ‘basing, now called Old basing, in some of the rural districts of is
the well known village and parish England the elder is called the about two ..."
6. History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1904)
"basing House commanded the road to the West through Salisbury, as Donnington ...
His second Nov 12 Waller's first attack upon basing House was spirit of his ..."
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