Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Station \Sta"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stationed}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Stationing}.]
   To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a
   post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of
   an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships
   on the coasts of Africa.

         He gained the brow of the hill, where the English
         phalanx was stationed.                   --Lyttelton.