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QuarteringQuartter Quart"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quartered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Quartering.]
1. To divide into four equal parts. Quartering
Quartering Quar"ter*ing, a.
1. (Naut.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not
directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
2. (Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive,
which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
QuarteringQuartering Quar"ter*ing, n.
1. A station. [Obs.] --Bp. Montagu.
2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
3. (Her.)
(a) The division of a shield containing different coats of
arms into four or more compartments.
(b) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an
escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
4. (Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See
Quarter, n., 1
(m) (Arch.) --Gwilt.
Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned
criminal was quartered. --Macaulay.
Meaning of Quarterings from wikipedia
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marriage to
bring in
quarterings. It is
permissible to omit
quarterings, but if a
quartering was
brought in by a
later quartering, it is
essential to show...
- Look up
quartering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Quartering may
refer to:
Dividing into four parts:
Dismemberment - a form of
execution Hanged,...
- The
Quartering Acts were two or more Acts of
British Parliament requiring local governments of Britain's
North American colonies to
provide the British...
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sentence of hanging, drawing, and
quartering was
changed to drawing,
hanging until dead, and
posthumous beheading and
quartering,
before being abolished in England...
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chivalry to
noblemen who
could demonstrate that
their lineage had
extended "
quarterings", i.e.
several generations of
noble ancestry, to be
eligible for offices...
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becomes important when the
large sample is not homogeneous.
Coning and
quartering is a
method used by
analytical chemists to
reduce the
sample size of a...
- (Amendment III) to the
United States Constitution places restrictions on the
quartering (the
placement and/or sheltering) of
soldiers in
private homes without...
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various obsolete customary units of
measurement Quarters of
nobility or
quarterings, the
number of
generations in
which noble status has been held by a family...
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ancestral line in question. For example, a
person having sixteen quarterings (formally in
heraldry Seize Quartiers),
might have
exclusively noble...
- Age of Sail, the
quarterdeck was the
preserve of the ship's officers.
quartering sea Seas
approaching a
vessel from
between 105° and 165° to port or starboard...
