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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



... vindicate them, if ever they should be violated." The answer of the ministry to a prophecy of force was a threat of force. Preparations were accordingly made to dispatch a larger number of soldiers than usual to the colonies, and the ink was hardly dry on the Stamp Act when Parliament passed the Quartering Act ordering the colonists to provide accommodations for the soldiers who were to enforce the new laws. "We have the power to tax them," said one of the ministry, "and we ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
... be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." It is a principle of the common law, that "a man's house is his own castle." Among the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, was one "for quartering large bodies of armed troops" among the people of the colonies. To secure the people against intrusions of this kind, is the ...
— The Government Class Book • Andrew W. Young
... Monday morning I went out and purchased four lengths of stout quartering—two long and two short—a coil of rope, a two-block tackle of the kind known to mariners as a 'handy Billy' and a pair of cask-grips. With the quartering and some lengths of rope I made two cask-slides, a long one for the cellar ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman
... some sick comrades with me," Malcolm said. "I have no thought of quartering them on you. That would be nigh as bad as the arrival of a party of marauders, for they are getting strength, and will, I warrant you, have keen appetites ere long; but we have brought tents, and will ...
— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty
... hundred forty thousand souls; these people, more ardent, more constant than the mobile and sceptical Gascons, did not seem capable of so easily abandoning their belief. The result, however, was the same as elsewhere. Nimes and Montpellier followed the example of Montauban. The quartering of a hundred soldiers in their houses quickly reduced the notables of Nimes; in this diocese alone, the principal centre of Protestantism, sixty thousand souls abjured in three days. Several of the leading ministers did the same. From Nimes the Duc ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson


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