'Quartering' definitions:
Definition of 'quartering'
From: WordNet
noun
A coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
noun
Living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
noun
Dividing into four equal parts
Definition of 'Quartering'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions. [1913 Webster]
- Then sailors quartered heaven. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- This isle . . . He quarters to his blue-haired deities. -- Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: When only two coats of arms are so combined they are arranged in four compartments. See Quarter, n., 1 (f) . [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quartering'
From: GCIDE
- Quartering \Quar"ter*ing\, n.
- 1. A station. [Obs.] --Bp. Montagu. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.) --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
- Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quartering'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quartering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achievement,
- alerion,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- assembly-line housing,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- billet,
- billeting,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- bordure,
- broad arrow,
- cadency mark,
- canton,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- domiciliation,
- doss,
- eagle,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- falcon,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- fret,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gyron,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- honor point,
- hospitality,
- housing,
- housing bill,
- housing development,
- housing problem,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- inescutcheon,
- label,
- lion,
- living quarters,
- lodging,
- lodgment,
- lower-income housing,
- lozenge,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- metal,
- motto,
- mullet,
- nombril point,
- octofoil,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- pale,
- paly,
- pean,
- pheon,
- purpure,
- quadripartition,
- quadrisection,
- quarter,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scutcheon,
- shield,
- slum clearance,
- spread eagle,
- subdivision,
- subordinary,
- tenne,
- tincture,
- torse,
- tract,
- transient lodging,
- tressure,
- unicorn,
- urban renewal,
- vair,
- vert,
- wreath,
- yale
Words containing 'Quartering'
- On the quarter,
- Quarter,
- Quartered,
- Quarterlies,
- Quarterly,
- quarters,
- Black quarter,
- Bowleys Quarters,
- Cypress Quarters,
- Dames Quarter,
- False quarter,
- Fifth quarter,
- Quarter aspect,
- Quarter back,
- Quarter badge,
- Quarter bill,
- Quarter block,
- Quarter boat,
- Quarter cloths,
- Quarter day,
- Quarter face,
- Quarter gallery,
- Quarter gunner,
- Quarter hoop,
- Quarter look,
- Quarter nettings,
- Quarter note,
- Quarter pieces,
- Quarter point,
- Quarter railing,
- Quarter rails,
- Quarter round,
- Quarter sessions,
- Quarter square,
- Quarter turn,
- Quarter watch,
- Quartering block,
- To give quarter,
- To keep quarter,
- To show quarter,
- Winter quarters,
- charge of quarters,
- close quarters,
- draw and quarter,
- every quarter,
- first quarter,
- last quarter,
- latin quarter,
- living quarters,
- military quarters,
- outer quarter,
- quarter crack,
- quarter horse,
- quarter mile,
- quarter plate,
- quarter pound,
- quarter rest,
- quarter section,
- quarter stock,
- quarter tone,
- Bowleys Quarters, MD,
- Cypress Quarters, FL,
- Dames Quarter, MD,
- Lamb's-quarters,
- Quarter turn belt,
- Quarter-deck,
- Quarter-saw,
- Three-quarter,
- lamb's-quarter,
- one-quarter,
- quarter-century,
- quarter-circle,
- quarter-hour,
- quarter-tone,
- quarter-vine,
- three-quarters,
- Three-quarter length,
- close-quarter fighting,
- three-quarter binding