The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marshal \Mar"shal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marshaledor Marshalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marshaling or Marshalling.]
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To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army.
And marshaling the heroes of his name As, in their order, next to light they came.
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To direct, guide, or lead.
Thou marshalest me the way that I was going.
--Shak. (Her.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.
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WordNet
n. a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law [syn: marshall]
(in some countries) a military officer of highest rank [syn: marshall]
[also: marshalling, marshalled]
v. place in proper rank; "marshal the troops"
arrange in logical order; "marshal facts or arguments"
make ready for action or use; "marshal resources" [syn: mobilize, mobilise, summon]
lead ceremoniously, as in a procession
[also: marshalling, marshalled]
See marshal
Usage examples of "marshalled".
She scrunched herself tight up against the corridor wall, watching in awe as the cradles magically filled and emptied again as cargo was shunted back and forth to the large composite ships waiting patiently in orbit above for their cargo to be marshalled and the Rowan to push the result off to its destination planet.
The activity she had first encountered as she emerged from the silent corridors into the hallway was as nothing to what developed as the entire administration of the Citadel was marshalled to implement the Gevethen’s order for the committal of every resource to the immediate capture of the Count.
In the same manner as the cavalry and infantry, the heavy and the light armed troops, the advanced guard and the rear, are marshalled by the skill of their military leaders.
The ostentatious payment of the officers and troops displayed before his eyes the riches of the empire: he was entertained at a royal banquet, ^51 in which the ambassadors of the nations were marshalled by the esteem or contempt of the Greeks: from his own table, the emperor, as the most signal favor, sent the plates which he had tasted.
Perhaps Jaric's passivity was feigned, a ruse intended to throw the Sathid off guard while he marshalled resources for his final step into mastery.
The horses milled against the Kielmark's restraint as if crazed, and the very earth went still as the Dark-dreamer marshalled his powers to destroy.
Isolated from his sympathy by the demands of her craft, she rallied and marshalled her talents to trace Maelgrim.
His body seemed a husk sucked hollow by torrents of wind as two score wild Sathid marshalled force to retaliate.
He watched the nervous reporters being brought in and marshalled on the floor in front of him.
The backlash from the energistic power marshalled by the possessed set off concussions of fright inside her skull.
A little while now, and King Henry's army of the west will be marshalled there on the borders to meet us.
So he marshalled his peers and their valetailles, and led them out to slaughter these miserable bourgeois who dared to raise a voice.
They marshalled themselves too — this noble rabble against the rabble of nobles and they marshalled themselves so well that they drove M.
As a consequence Besenval brought up his Swiss from the Champ de Mars and marshalled them in battle order on the Champs Elysees with four pieces of artillery.
He marshalled the effort with difficulty, and led the Baron into the living room, the House Fell bodyguard and the Dendarii following.