quartering
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)
- a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriagesType of coat of arms, arms
- living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)Type of housing, lodging
- dividing into four equal partsType of division
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. Nautical Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; — said of waves or any moving object.
2. Machinery At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
1. A station. obsolete Bp. Richard Montagu
2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
3. Heraldry (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. Architecture A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, noun, 1 (m) Architecture Joseph Gwilt
Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54