Category:Squadron

Squad"ron, n. Etym: [f. escadron, formerly also esquadron, or it. Squadrone. See squad.]

1. Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of Troops drawn up in a square. [r.] Those half-rounding quards just met, and, closing, stood in squadron Joined. Milton.

2. (mil.)

Defn: a body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and Averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.

3. (naut.)

Defn: a detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or Station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the north Atlantic squadron. Totten. Flying squadron, a squadron of observation Or practice, that cruises rapidly about from place to place. Ham. Nav. Encyc.