'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'

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