Definitions

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  • adjective rare Formed into squadrons, or squares.

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  • adjective obsolete Formed into squadrons, or squares.

Etymologies

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squadron +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls.

    Poetry Friday 2006

  • Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls.

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls.

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls.

    Beowulf 2003

  • For an hour they sat together murmuring questions and reply, heart answering to heart, eyes reading eyes, and hand enfolding hand; until at last Yasmini rose to leave him and he stood like a lord of squadroned lances to watch her go.

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • Your ageless-squadroned wings, your surge and gleam, 10

    Wind in the Beechwood 1918

  • For an hour they sat together murmuring questions and reply, heart answering to heart, eyes reading eyes, and hand enfolding hand; until at last Yasmini rose to leave him and he stood like a lord of squadroned lances to watch her go.

    Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909

  • What Cranston and Truman dreaded, too, was that they might be squadroned with some of the -- th under Major Chrome.

    Under Fire Charles King 1888

  • Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls.

    Beowulf Anonymous 1887

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