Quartered

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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


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              Then sailors quartered heaven.        --Dryden.
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     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.
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              They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered.
                                                    --Shak.
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     4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.]
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              This isle . . .
              He quarters to his blue-haired deities. -- Milton.
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     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.
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     Note: When only two coats of arms are so combined they are
           arranged in four compartments. See {Quarter}, n., 1
        (f) .
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quartered \Quar"tered\, a.
     1. Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into
        four parts or regions.
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     2. Furnished with quarters; provided with shelter or
        entertainment.
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     3. Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "quartered":
     billeted, cleft, cloven, cracked, cut, domiciled, domiciliated,
     housed, in pieces, in shreds, lacerate, lacerated, mangled,
     mutilated, quadrifid, quadrifoliate, quadriform, quadrifurcate,
     quadrigeminal, quadripartite, quadripinnate, quadriplanar,
     quadrisected, quadrivial, quadrumanal, quadrumanous, ragged, rent,
     riven, severed, shredded, slit, splintered, split, stabled,
     tattered, torn