QUARTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quartering mean? 

• QUARTERING (noun)
  The noun QUARTERING has 3 senses:

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 parts

  Familiarity information: QUARTERING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARTERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("quartering" is a kind of...):

arms; blazon; blazonry; coat of arms (the official symbols of a family, state, etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("quartering" is a kind of...):

housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Derivation:

quarter (provide housing for (military personnel))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Dividing into four equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("quartering" is a kind of...):

division (the act or process of dividing)

Derivation:

quarter (divide by four; divide into quarters)

quarter (divide into quarters)

 Context examples 

I had not the experience to steer at the gait we were going on a quartering course.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I wondered peevishly why they couldn't put her anywhere else instead of quartering her on me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lashing the wheel I ran forward, eased the fore and mainsheets, took in on the boom-tackles and trimmed everything for the quartering breeze which was ours.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)