quartering
n. 等, 供住宿

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

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2. living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)

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3. dividing into four equal parts

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Quarter \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.

2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions.

Then sailors quartered heaven. --Dryden.

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.

They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered.
--Shak.

4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.]

This isle . . .
He quarters to his blue-haired deities. -- Milton.

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.

Note: When only two coats of arms are so combined they are
arranged in four compartments. See {Quarter}, n., 1
(f) .


Quartering \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.


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.