Crossword clues for quartered
quartered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quartered \Quar"tered\, a.
Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions.
Furnished with quarters; provided with shelter or entertainment.
Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak.
Quarter \Quar"ter\ (kw[aum]r"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quartered; p. pr. & vb. n. Quartering.]
To divide into four equal parts.
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To divide; to separate into parts or regions.
Then sailors quartered heaven.
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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.
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To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.]
This isle . . . He quarters to his blue-haired deities. -- Milton.
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(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) .
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: quarter)
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "quartered".
Early in August we were brought from Bridgewater to Taunton, where we were thrown with hundreds of others into the same wool storehouse where our regiment had been quartered in the early days of the campaign.
No preparations having been made at Hamburg for the reception of Marshal Mortier, he quartered himself and his whole staff upon me.
On the highest of the mountain plateaus about a hundred palikars were quartered in a dozen stone huts.
Chori and Pingo went hunting and returned an hour later with a gutted and quartered deer, the bloody chunks wrapped in palm fronds.
Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
In memory of her he has quartered his own arms with those of Des Touches, which are: party couped, tranche and taille or and sinople, on the latter two eagles argent.
In this habitation twelve Albanian soldiers and an officer were quartered, who behaved towards them with civility.
Caerleon means the fort of the legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there, and made a tiny Rome of the place, with amphitheatre, baths, temples, and everything necessary for the comfort of a Roman-Briton.
King quartered back and forth briefly, working the air currents, head high.
October came word from Labienus that Caesar had left Italian Gaul to journey with his usual fleetness all the way to the stronghold of Nemetocenna in the lands of the Belgic Atrebates, where Trebonius was quartered with the Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Legions.
Nemetocenna in the lands of the Belgic Atrebates, where Trebonius was quartered with the Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Legions.
He entered a short corridor and found an ancient coin box in a room which resembled the one where Pug Hoffler and Birdy Zelker were quartered.
Anne often threatened to leave her, and go to a boarding-house, of which there were plenty in the place, yet, after all, to live with her sister, and drive out in the carriage with the footman and coachman in mourning, and the lozenge on the panels, with the Bluebeard and Shacabac arms quartered on it, was far more respectable, and so the lovely sisters continued to dwell together.
What if they have a company of troops quartered a block away and they get a panic call from some Chicom on the ship?
From there I found the main square and asked an off-duty trooper where the Finest were quartered.