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Quartering

noun

A coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages.

Living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel).

Dividing into four equal parts.

Quarter

verb

(past & past part. quartered; pres. part. quartering)

Provide housing for (military personnel). Synonyms: billet, canton.

Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him. Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter.

Divide into quarters.

Divide by four; divide into quarters.

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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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