Found 3 items, similar to Quartering.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quartering
quartering
n 1: a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon;
combining four coats of arms on one shield usually
represented intermarriages
2: living accommodations (especially those assigned to military
personnel)
3: dividing into four equal parts
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Quartering
Quarter
\Quar"ter\ (kw[aum]r"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Quartered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quartering.]
1. To divide into four equal parts.
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2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions.
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Then sailors quartered heaven. --Dryden.
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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.
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They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered.
--Shak.
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4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.]
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This isle . . .
He quarters to his blue-haired deities. -- Milton.
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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.
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Note: When only two coats of arms are so combined they are
arranged in four compartments. See
Quarter, n., 1
(f) .
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Quartering
\Quar"ter*ing\, n.
1. A station. [Obs.] --Bp. Montagu.
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2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
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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.
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4. (Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See
Quarter, n., 1
(m) (Arch.) --Gwilt.
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Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned
criminal was quartered. --Macaulay.
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Quartering
\Quar"ter*ing\, a.
1. (Naut.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not
directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
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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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