Definitions from Wiktionary (quartering)

▸ noun:  A division into four parts.
▸ noun:  The act of providing housing for military 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.
▸ noun:  (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
▸ noun:  (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.
▸ noun:  A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
▸ adjective:  (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
▸ adjective:  (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
▸ adjective:  (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.






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