Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical: Sailing large but not before the wind.
- Being on the quarter, or between the line of the keel and the beam, abaft the latter: as, a quartering wind.
- In archery, making an acute angle with the range: said of the wind.
- noun The change of the moon from one quarter to the next.
- noun The act of dividing into fourths.
- noun The act of assigning quarters, as for soldiers.
- noun Quarters; lodging; a station.
- noun In heraldry, the marshaling or disposal of various escutcheons in one, in order to denote the several alliances of one family with the heiresses of others.
- noun In carpentry, a series of small vertical timber posts, rarely exceeding 4 by 3 inches, used to form a partition for the separation or boundary of apartments.
- noun In gunnery, the position or placing of a piece of ordnance when it is so traversed that it will shoot on the same line, or on the same point of the compass, as that on which the ship's quarter has its bearing.
- noun In mech., the adjustment of cranks on a single shaft at an angle of 90° with each other; also, the boring of holes for wrist-pins in locomotive driving-wheels at right angles with each other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
- adjective (Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- noun obsolete A station.
- noun Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
- noun The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- noun One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- noun (Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See
Quarter , n., 1 (m) (Arch.) - noun a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
quarter . - noun The act of providing
housing formilitary personnel , especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen. - noun The method of
capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces. - noun heraldry The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- noun heraldry One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an
escutcheon , denoting the descent of the bearer. - noun architecture A series of
quarters , or small upright posts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
- noun living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- noun dividing into four equal parts
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Examples
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When your dog is solid on quartering and retrieving off the quartering is a great time to introduce the gun.
Kaboom! 2009
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When your dog is solid on quartering and retrieving off the quartering is a great time to introduce the gun.
Kaboom! 2009
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Over recent weeks the WFP has started feeding an extra 120,000 desperately hungry people who were until recently completely cut off from aid due to the war, including families of former UNITA soldiers being demobilized across the country in some 34 so-called quartering areas.
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This process is called quartering, and ensures that the remaining portion is "average quality".
Chapter 10 1990
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This method is called quartering (fig. 147) and ensures that the final sample is representative of the bulk of the clay.
1. Refractories 1987
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They were perfectly justified in defending their property, and the idea of quartering them, as well as hanging them, just as if they were traitors of the worst dye, is nothing short of monstrous.
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In this Marshalling the first quarter is occupied by the most important quartering, which is determined (without any fixed rule) by the original grant or licence: the other quarterings follow, in the order in which they may have been “brought in” to the composition.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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The last thing to be done is to cut the "quartering" to the length and angle required, to determine upon the shape and size of the neck, and to fix the neck block (see Fig. 27) to the "quartering" by screws.
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This method was, after making a rough drawing and calculation as to the positions the specimens would occupy in the case, to nail strips of "quartering" across the backs of the cases, to which again were nailed strips of 0.75 in. wood, crossing in all directions, but especially where the drawings indicated a mass of rock.
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A slot to receive the board should have been previously cut in the plaster under-jaw of the model, or, in a more simple and efficient manner (see Fig. 31), by procuring a piece of "quartering," 3 in. x 2 in, about 2 ft. in length, cutting a channel in the under-jaw and the back of the head to fit it, wedging up, and pouring in wet plaster to make all secure.
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