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Definition of Platooned
1. platoon [v] - See also: platoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platooned
Literary usage of Platooned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1920)
"We have had all the gamblers, capitalists, financiers of the world organised and
platooned in bands of plunderers, arrayed against us, and secret emissaries ..."
2. Man, the Social Creator by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1906)
"... surveillance and militarism of a policed industry, unendurable if policed and
platooned even though the industry be by and for all. ..."
3. Principles of Secondary Education by Paul Monroe (1914)
"Pupils were platooned into approximately equal groups and moved in mass.
Unfortunately this procedure made it necessary for a pupil failing in one or two ..."
4. The New-England Magazine by Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin (1833)
"They platooned, faced about, and wheeled round with apparently aa much skill and
science as if they had been drilled to it Ъу л hundred re- The adventure ..."
5. Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon by Napoleon, Gaspard Gourgaud, Charles Jean Tristan Montholon (1823)
"... behind their cohorts, near the intervals which divide them ; those of the
second line are platooned by half companies, upon the flanks of their columns. ..."
6. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1920)
"We have had all the gamblers, capitalists, financiers of the world organised and
platooned in bands of plunderers, arrayed against us, and secret emissaries ..."
7. Man, the Social Creator by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1906)
"... surveillance and militarism of a policed industry, unendurable if policed and
platooned even though the industry be by and for all. ..."
8. Principles of Secondary Education by Paul Monroe (1914)
"Pupils were platooned into approximately equal groups and moved in mass.
Unfortunately this procedure made it necessary for a pupil failing in one or two ..."
9. The New-England Magazine by Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin (1833)
"They platooned, faced about, and wheeled round with apparently aa much skill and
science as if they had been drilled to it Ъу л hundred re- The adventure ..."
10. Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon by Napoleon, Gaspard Gourgaud, Charles Jean Tristan Montholon (1823)
"... behind their cohorts, near the intervals which divide them ; those of the
second line are platooned by half companies, upon the flanks of their columns. ..."
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