quartering in English

noun

1

the coats of arms marshalled on a shield to denote the marriages into a family of the heiresses of others.

The devices of ornament can amplify, by doubling and redoubling or other types of repetition and variation, these degrees of status as in heraldic quarterings and the chevrons of rank.

2

the provision of accommodations or lodgings, especially for troops.

In November, English recruiting officers appeared in Boston, and the Assembly and the Boston magistrates forbade any recruiting or any quartering of troops in the town.

3

the action of dividing something into four parts.

In this case, dissection took the place of quartering ; it was likewise viewed as a form of supplementary punishment, a further mark of infamy, inflicted on the criminal after death.

verb

1

divide into four equal or corresponding parts.

peel and quarter the bananas

2

be stationed or lodged in a specified place.

many were quartered in tents

synonyms: accommodate, house, board, lodge, put up, take in, install, shelter, billet

3

range over or traverse (an area) in every direction.

we watched a pair of kingfishers quartering the river looking for minnows

synonyms: patrol, range over, tour, reconnoiter, traverse, survey, scout

4

display (different coats of arms) in quarters of a shield, especially to show arms inherited from heiresses who have married into the bearer's family.

Edward III quartered the French royal arms with his own

verb

accommodate, house, board, lodge, put up, take in, install, shelter, billet
patrol, range over, tour, reconnoiter, traverse, survey, scout
canton, billet
draw

Use "quartering" in a sentence

1. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us :

2. 40 synonyms for Accommodation: housing, homes, houses, board, quartering, quarters, digs

3. The Battue is a wafer-thin, flat target which can be presented as loopers, crossing or quartering targets

4. 25 When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering stoutly to his work.

5. Adarticulation vs abarticulation; abarticulations vs Adarticulations; housing vs quartering; aardwolf vs brownhyena; theaardwolf vs thespottedhyena; long vs sesquipedalian; polysyllabic vs sesquipedalian

6. Were Chumship; Chummery "shared bachelor quarters," Chummage "system of quartering more than one to a room."

7. Sent in chains to St. Petersburg, he was sentenced to death via quartering, but Empress Catherine the Great pardoned him in 1763.

8. The Battue - AT400 is now on the market—launching quartering, curling, looping, and rolling targets at angles unmatched by any other Battue machine manufactured today

9. These targets, although the same diameter as the Standard target (108 mm), the Battue is a wafer thin, flat target which can be presented as loopers, crossing or quartering targets.

10. Casemate (plural Casemates) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops

11. Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Blazonry"): quartering (a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages)

12. Allegorize the high dive yperit pereigi baisser les yeux African village within stockade, cattle pen, native village in South Africa; fenced in area for keeping cattle quartering gris admiring purjehdus, purjehtiminen, purjehdustaito, navigointi, merenkulku, merenkulkutaito, meriliikenne, lentosuunnistus, suunnistustaito ponovni prijenos

13. Synonyms: arms , Blazonry , coat of arms Types: quartering a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages Type of: heraldry emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms v decorate with

14. Billeting, the quartering of military troops at public expense, was a British practice that infuriated American colonists and fueled calls for revolution. Billeting became a contentious issue, particularly in New York and Philadelphia, as Great Britain sent more and more soldiers to fight the French during the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).

15. To remedy the college having to reduce fines due to the hardship experienced by the tenants either by being forced to support the quartering of soldiers or other effects of the war; it was agreed on 22nd April 1652 that in future, a clause would be inserted into all leases whereby "our several Tenants shall covenant to save ye Colledg harmless and indemnified from all assessments, Billettings and …

16. The Government of the Republic of Angola welcomes with affability the climate of cooperation, fraternity and verified patriotism during the military conversations that enabled the transformations of mistrust and doubt, common in processes of this nature, into a candid exploration of efficient solutions for concrete problems of great impact to the destiny of the nation, among which are the disengagement, quartering and conclusion of the demilitarization of UNITA, and for the incorporation of its staff for future selection and incorporation of its generals, officers, sergeants and soldiers into the Angolan Armed Forces and the National Police, in accordance with the existing institutional vacancies, as well as the consequent social reintegration of demobilization into civil society through competent agencies and entities of the Government.