0 present participle of quell --
1 to stop something, especially by using force: --
In quelling that riot, are the troops on active service and liable to the disciplinary punishments which prevail when people are on active service?
The fire service's role has nothing to do with quelling civil disturbances.
Suppose trouble were to arise in those parts, who is responsible for quelling it, and who pays for it?
That is the kind of threat that we are talking about quelling.
These garrisons are chiefly occupied in quelling disturbances, enforcing payment of taxes, and other duties of a similar nature.
These detainees were not sentenced to corporal punishment but were injured during the quelling of an incipient riot in which they were participating.
In my view it is entirely the uncertainty, or rather the quelling of the uncertainty, which caused that slight rise which has been mentioned.
I did this because it is possible to believe that an officer might have difficulty in quelling trouble created by more than two people.
