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What (who) is quartering - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Quartered; Quartering (disambiguation)
quartering
¦ noun
1. (quarterings) Heraldry the coats of arms on a shield denoting the marriages into a family of the heiresses of others.
2. the provision of lodgings, especially for troops.
3. division into quarters.
Quartering
·noun A Station.
II. Quartering ·noun Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
III. Quartering ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Quartter.
IV. Quartering ·noun A series of quarters, or small upright posts. ·see Quarter, ·noun, 1 (m) (Arch.).
V. Quartering ·noun The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
VI. Quartering ·noun One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
VII. Quartering ·adj Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern;
- said of waves or any moving object.
VIII. Quartering ·adj At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
Quartered
·Impf & ·p.p. of Quartter.
II. Quartered ·add. ·adj Quarter-sawed;
- said of timber, commonly oak.
III. Quartered ·add. ·adj Furnished with quarters; provided with shelter or entertainment.
IV. Quartered ·add. ·adj Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions.
Wikipedia
Quartering
Quartering may refer to:
- Dividing into four parts:
- Dismemberment - a form of execution
- Hanged, drawn and quartered - another form of execution
- Quartering (heraldry)
- Coning and quartering a process for splitting of an analytic sample
- Quartering, a method in the assaying of gold; see Gold parting § Acid parting
- The Quartering Acts, requiring American civilians to provide living spaces for British soldiers prior to the American Revolution
Examples of use of quartering
1. The Sairis began quartering onions for the coming rush.
2. The firm adopted as its house flag a quartering of the royal colours of Portugal and Spain, which it still uses today.
3. He suggested that "drawing and quartering" would be a more appropriate punishment than the electric chair for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of atomic espionage for the Soviet Union.
4. I have no idea where he stands on capital punishment, but I suspect that if hanging, drawing and quartering had been available, Judge Fulford would have reached for the black cap.
5. There are parts of it that don‘t seem to make much sense today, and we wonder why they are worried about quartering soldiers and things like that, but they were important then.