quartering

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: quar=ter=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

quartering, a. 

•  Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.  [1913 Webster]
•  At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.  [1913 Webster]

quartering, n. 

•  A station.  Bp. Montagu.  [1913 Webster]
•  Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.  [1913 Webster]
•  The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quartering, n.
1 (in pl.) the coats of arms marshalled on a shield to denote the alliances of a family with the heiresses of others.
2 the provision of quarters for soldiers.
3 the act or an instance of dividing, esp. into four equal parts.
4 timber sawn into lengths, used for high-quality floor-boards etc.

THESAURUS

quartering

achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, assembly-line housing, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, billeting, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, domiciliation, doss, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, hospitality, housing, housing bill, housing development, housing problem, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, living quarters, lodging, lodgment, lower-income housing, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, purpure, quadripartition, quadrisection, quarter, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, slum clearance, spread eagle, subdivision, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tract, transient lodging, tressure, unicorn, urban renewal, vair, vert, wreath, yale

ROGET THESAURUS

quartering

Quadrisection

N quadrisection, quadripartition, quartering, fourth, quart, quarter, quartern, farthing, fourthing, quadrant, quartered, quadrifid, quadripartite, rectangular.