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noun

Quartering n.

1.

A station. (Obs.)

2.

Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.

3.

(Her.)

(a)

The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.

(b)

One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.

4.

(Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.)

Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.

verb

Quarter v. t. (past & past part. quartered; pres. part. quartering)

1.

To divide into four equal parts.

2.

To divide; to separate into parts or regions. "Then sailors quartered heaven."

3.

To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers. "They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered."

4.

To furnish as a portion; to allot. (R.) "This isle... He quarters to his blue-haired deities."

5.

(Her.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms. Note: When only two coats of arms are so combined they are arranged in four compartments. See Quarter, n., 1 (f).

Quarter v. i. To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

Quarter v. i. To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. "Every creature that met us would rely on us for quartering."

adjective

Quartering adj.

1.

(Naut.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.

2.

(Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.

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"Quartering" Quotes from Famous Books

... are peculiarly dreaded in Izumo for three evil habits attributed to them. The first is that of deceiving people by enchantment, either for revenge or pure mischief. The second is that of quartering themselves as retainers upon some family, and thereby making that family a terror to its neighbours. The third and worst is that of entering into people and taking diabolical possession of them and tormenting them into madness. This affliction is ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn

... provoked several animated replies, during which some clenched their fists, and some took off their caps. Upon that the driver began a still more powerful oration, setting before the patriots a prospective quartering if they even ventured to look askance at the heads of the horses. This had the effect of diminishing the number of clenched fists, and increasing that of the doffed caps. At length the merchant put an end ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

... events had now the public attention. During the previous March, the Stamp Act and the Quartering Act had passed both houses of Parliament; and Virginia and Massachusetts, conscious of their dangerous character, had roused the fears of the other Provinces; and a convention of their delegates was appointed to meet during October in New York. It was this important session ...

— The Bow of Orange Ribbon - A Romance of New York • Amelia E. Barr

... which accords precisely with the way in which the Bear and Staff are set forth in the Rous Roll to the early earls (Warwick) before the Conquest. We there find them figured with the Staff upon their shields and the Bear at their feet, and the Staff alone is introduced as a quartering ...

— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... band of elk, some twenty or thirty in all, watched us with interest as we approached. When we were still half a mile off they suddenly started to run toward us, evidently frightened by something. They ran quartering, and when about four hundred yards away we saw that an eagle was after them. Soon it swooped, and a yearling in the rear, weakly, and probably frightened by the swoop, turned a complete somersault, and when it recovered its feet, stood still. The great bird followed ...

— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various

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