quartering

Meanings

1. 1
   verb To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
2. 2
   verb To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
3. 3
   verb To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
4. 4
   verb To quartersaw.
5. 5
   verb 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.
6. 6
   noun A division into four parts.
7. 7
   noun The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
8. 8
   noun The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
9. 9
   noun The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
10. 10
    noun One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
11. 11
    noun A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
12. 12
    noun The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
13. 13
    noun Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.
14. 14
    adjective Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
15. 15
    adjective At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.