vbl. sb. The action of the vb. CANTON; † concr. a portion, fragment (obs.).
1622–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., I. (1682), 190. The dismembring and cantoning of this fair Estate.
1625. Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar., 8. Popular Cantonings of dismembred Scripture.
1844. Regul. & Ord. Army, 73. Quartering, Billeting, and Cantoning of Troops.
