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quartering n. 4等分 4等分 quartering n 1: a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages 2: living accommodations ( especially those assigned to military personnel) 3: dividing into four equal partsQuarter \ Quar" ter\ ( kw[ aum] r" t[~ e] r), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Quartered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Quartering}.] 1. To divide into four equal parts. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions. [ 1913 Webster] Then sailors quartered heaven. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers. [ 1913 Webster] They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] This isle . . . He quarters to his blue- haired deities. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Her.) To arrange ( different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms. [ 1913 Webster] Note: When only two coats of arms are so combined they are arranged in four compartments. See { Quarter}, n., 1 ( f) . [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other. [ 1913 Webster]
Quartering \ Quar" ter* ing\, n. 1. A station. [ Obs.] -- Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Arch.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] 122 Moby Thesaurus words for " 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
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