Crossword clues for quartering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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) .
Quartering \Quar"ter*ing\, n.
A station. [Obs.]
--Bp. Montagu.Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
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(Her.)
The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
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(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.
(Naut.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
(Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
Wiktionary
1 (context nautical English) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object. 2 (context engineering English) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other. n. 1 The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen. 2 The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces. 3 (context heraldry English) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments. 4 (context heraldry English) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer. 5 (context architecture English) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. v
(present participle of quarter English)
WordNet
n. a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
dividing into four equal parts
Wikipedia
Quartering may refer to:
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dividing into four parts:
- Hanged, drawn and quartered, quartering as a punishment
- Quartering (heraldry)
- Coning and Quartering a process for splitting of an analytic sample
- Quartering the process of diluting an alloy by melting it with some other metal to make dissolution easier. Traditionally in gold parting one part of a gold alloy was melted with three parts of copper to permit all components but gold to be dissolved in nitric acid.
- The Quartering Acts, requiring American civilians to provide living spaces for British soldiers prior to the American Revolution
Quartering in heraldry is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. Typically, a quartering consists of a division into four equal parts, two above and two below (party per cross). An example is the Sovereign Arms of the United Kingdom, as used outside Scotland, which consists of four quarterings, displaying the Arms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the coat for England repeated at the end. (In the royal arms as used in Scotland, the Scottish quartering appears in the first and fourth quarters and the English one second.) However, in most traditions there is no limit on the number of divisions allowed, and the records of the College of Arms include a shield of 323 quarterings for the family of Lloyd of Stockton. These 323 quarterings include numerous repeated attributed arms assigned to Welsh chieftains from the 9th century or earlier.
Another example of a shield of many quarterings is the coat of arms of the Powys-Lybbe family, which contains 64 quarterings. Different rules apply in Scottish heraldry, and may well apply in other jurisdictions like Canada and South Africa.
The arms of the Queen of the United Kingdom are arms of dominion, which join together the arms of the ex-kingdoms now part of her kingdom. However, the vast majority of quarterly coats of arms display arms which are claimed by descent: in other words, they join together coats of arms of the ancestors of the bearer of the arms.
Strict rules apply, both as to what arms may be displayed by way of quarterings, and the order in which they may be displayed. Men and women are always entitled to display the arms of their paternal line but are not usually entitled to display by way of quartering the arms of families from whom there is descent only through a female line (for example, the arms of a mother or grandmother or great-grandmother). An exception is made, however, if the female who breaks the male line of descent is a heraldic heiress—a woman who has no brothers, or whose brothers have died without issue. Such a woman is entitled to transmit her father's arms to her own children, who add them as a quartering. If her father was himself entitled to one or more quarterings, these will pass to his daughters' children as quarterings as well. Quarterings are displayed in the order in which they are acquired by a family by marriage, starting with those acquired by the earliest 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 the whole chain of quarterings leading to the quartering displayed, or else to omit the chain altogether.
The larger the number of quarterings, the smaller the space available for each coat of arms, so that most families entitled to many quarterings make a selection of those they ordinarily use. The Duke of Norfolk, for example, uses only four quarterings, although he is entitled to many more. In Scotland in some cases the plain unquartered coat is the more prized, as entitlement to its use can indicate who is chief of the name and arms and holds the headship of a clan. For example, Flora Fraser, Lady Saltoun of Abernethy has arms as chief of Fraser — the plain coat of 'azure, three fraises argent' — and a 'private' quartered coat. The Powys-Lybbe family appear, likewise, to usually use only the quarterings of Powys and Lybbe. However these are not true quarterings as the arms were changed in 1907 to be an impartible design of the two arms; the personal arms are precisely this design, with no quarterings despite its appearance. (If this were a quartering the following would apply: when only two different coats of arms are shown, each one is repeated twice in order to fill up the minimum number of four quarterings on such a display.) Prior to the 1907 change, the family did quarter their arms with Lybbe but with the Powys arms in the top left quarter as these were the family arms; the new design has Lybbe in the top left as Lybbe is the last part of the name.
Usage examples of "quartering".
Shiv and then Usara in slowly quartering the cave as Parrail read out brief and often unflattering descriptions of the people they sought.
King started working, quartering across the yard sniffing, head in the air, then worked back along the fence, paused at the cut, crossed through the gaping, still-curled back wire.
The dogs moved gracefully, jumping small rocks, circumventing others, quartering and moving ahead at the arm and hand signals of their handlers.
RPVs up there quartering the area for a couple klicks in every direction.
About a hundred yards out from the beach, as we started on a strictly sordid beachcombing expedition to the scene of the squashed wreck of a Chinese sampan, a shark betrayed itself by the dorsal fin quartering the glassy surface of the sea.
God He knows that I am unworthy of such honor, yet I can show my four-and-sixty quarterings, and I have been present at some bickerings and scufflings during these twenty years.
One gets the impression that since the beginning of time an unending horde of their priests and apostles (or even the gods themselves, it makes little difference) have been crippling across that same desert, the Sinking Land, and the Great Salt Marsh to converge on Lankhmar's low, heavy-arched Marsh Gate—meanwhile suffering by the way various inevitable tortures, castrations, blindings and stonings, impalements, crucifixions, quarterings and so forth at the hands of eastern brigands and Mingol unbelievers who, one is tempted to think, were created solely for the purpose of seeing to the running of that cruel gauntlet.
One gets the impression that since the beginning of time an unending horde of their priests and apostles (or even the gods themselves, it makes little difference) have been crippling across that same desert, the Sinking Land, and the Great Salt Marsh to converge on Lankhmar's low, heavy-arched Marsh Gate -- meanwhile suffering by the way various inevitable tortures, castrations, blindings and stonings, impalements, crucifixions, quarterings and so forth at the hands of eastern brigands and Mingol unbelievers who, one is tempted to think, were created solely for the purpose of seeing to the running of that cruel gauntlet.
These instruments of destruction are carefully described: "Having prepared fortie or fiftie round-bellied earthen pots, and filled them with hand Gunpowder, then covered them with Pitch, mingled with Brimstone and Turpentine, and quartering as many Musket-bullets, that hung together but only at the center of the division, stucke them round in the mixture about the pots, and covered them againe with the same mixture, over that a strong sear-cloth, then over all a goode thicknesse of Towze-match, well tempered with oyle of Linseed, Campheer, and powder of Brimstone, these he fitly placed in slings, graduated so neere as they could to the places of these assemblies.
Karl unbuckled his sword and hung it on a low branch, then reached up and pulled down a couple of oranges, tossing one to Chak before quartering the other with his beltknife.
She had the time, so she did a leisurely spin-in, quartering the globe from darkside to daylight and identifying congregates of life signs .
Reflection from the smooth glass made the empty rectangle a good aiming point, and Kelly's quartering angle on the sedan meant that the bullets would snap across the tonneau and the space most likely to be occupied by the driver's head.
The snub-nosed stems with the blunt attempt at the clipper bow where it was shaped to take the bowsprit, the fat buxom hulls and the squares'l yard trimmed to the quartering wind.
The trial was presided over by the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal of England, who sentenced the prisoner to a traitor's death: hanging, drawing and quartering, 'his heart to be drawn from his body and flung against his face'.
The arms of Charlotte-Adélaide were a quartering of those of de Gex and de Crépy, and to make the arms of d’Ozoir, these had been recursively quartered with those of the House of de Lavardac d’Arcachon—themselves a quartering of something that included a lot of fleurs-de-lis, with an arrangement of black heads in iron collars, slashed with a bend sinister to indicate bastardy.