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Quartering

noun

A coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages.

Living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel).

Dividing into four equal parts.

Quarter

verb

(past & past part. quartered; pres. part. quartering)

Provide housing for (military personnel). Synonyms: billet, canton.

Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him. Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter.

Divide into quarters.

Divide by four; divide into quarters.

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"Quartering" Quotes from Famous Books

... number of stripes to thirteen, the number of original States comprising the Union. The number of stars was to be made equal to that of the States. Soon afterward, the new flag, with twenty stars in its quartering, was first raised over the halls of Congress. Shortly after this the Fifteenth Congress adjourned. On October 20, a convention with Great Britain was signed respecting fisheries and boundaries, giving to Americans the right to fish in Newfoundland waters and renewing the agreement of 1815, ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... is to take the flocks up into the mountains or on the high plateaus during the summer, quartering them near some spring or small stream, and when the snow comes they are moved down to the lower foothills or out into the valleys. In the winter both shepherds and sheep depend on the snow for their water ...

— Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 • Cosmos Mindeleff

... War, at which 'Colonel Edward Seymour, Governor of Dartmouth town and garrison,' was present, providing very minutely for the defence of the town and for the supplies of the garrison. Stories of the Parliamentary troops quartering themselves in churches are sometimes told, with the unfair implication that they alone were guilty of such desecration; for where need was urgent the Royalists took the same course. Here we find orders: 'Captain Haughton ... with forty men shall lie in Townstall church, for the fortifying thereof ...

— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote

... had now the public attention. During the previous March, the Stamp Act and the Quartering Act had passed both houses of Parliament; and Virginia and Massachusetts, conscious of their dangerous character, had roused the fears of the other Provinces; and a convention of their delegates was appointed to meet during October in New York. It ...

— The Bow of Orange Ribbon - A Romance of New York • Amelia E. Barr

... quartering a Staff. Hunting parties were given for the occasion in the manorial demesne, and passing processions of bedizened guests were seen. Among the generals and nobles shone an Austrian prince of the blood ...

— Light • Henri Barbusse

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