Word Finder - quartering

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To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

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To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.

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Quarter the horses in the third stable.

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To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

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To quartersaw.

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To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

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A division into four parts.

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The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.

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The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.

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The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.

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One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.

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A series of quarters, or small upright posts.

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The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).

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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.

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Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.

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At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.

The township suffered severely during the War of Independence on account of the frequent quartering of American troops within its borders, the depredations of bands of lawless men after the occupation of New York by the British in 1778 and its invasion by the British in 1779 (February 25) and 1781 (December 5).

Middleton, with Archbishop Sharp, misgoverned the country, established a high court of commission, exiled the fiercest preachers to Holland, whence they worked endless mischief by agitation and a war of pamphlets; irritated the Covenanting shires, Fife and the south-west, by quartering troops on them to exact fines for Nonconformity, and so caused, during a war with Holland, the Pentland Rising (November 1666).

I've watched the barn owl quartering the fields most afternoons when I've been working there; which makes for a pleasant interlude.

The war with France at the beginning of this reign, with its attendant evils, quartering of troops, conscription and levies of money, joined with cattle disease and scanty harvests in plunging the land again into distress, from which it recovered very slowly.

The country was flooded with Jesuits and friars, whose arguments were reinforced by quartering troops, veterans of the Indian wars in Mexico, on the refractory inhabitants.

The commission appointed to try his case condemned him (iith of April 1741) to death by quartering, but this sentence was commuted by the clemency of the new regent, Anna Leopoldovna, the mother of Ivan VI., to banishment for life at Pelin in Siberia.

The correspondence was shown to Franklin by a mysterious " member of parliament " to back up the contention that the quartering of troops in Boston was suggested, not by the British ministry, but by Americans and Bostonians.

Czech manifestoes were confiscated, and meetings stopped at the slightest appearance of disorder; and the riots were punished by quartering soldiers upon the inhabitants.

Capital punishment was confined to treason and murder; the former was not to be attended by corruption of blood, drawing, or quartering; all other felonies were made punishable by confinement and hard labour, save a few to which was applied, against Jefferson's desire, the principle of retaliation.

Not as heretics, by burning, but as traitors, by hanging, drawing and quartering.

The chief cause of dispute was the quartering by the Danish king of the three crowns of Sweden on the Dano-Norwegian shield, which was supposed to indicate a claim of sovereignty.

The ministry met this campaign by coercive legislation regulating the use of arms, by quartering large bodies of troops in Ireland, and by prohibiting a great meeting at Clontarf, the scene of Brian Borus victory, in the immediate neighborhood of Dublin.

As a consequence of this, in place of receiving the farm produce at his own home the chief or noble reserved to himself the right of quartering himself and a certain number of followers in the house of his vassal, a practice which must have been ruinous to the small farmers.

A ringtail Hen Harrier was also seen quartering at the bridge on the road between Guerriero and Alcarias.

Sage-hens, grouse and small birds the coyote hunts successfully alone, quartering over the ground like a trained pointer until he succeeds in locating his bird, when he drops flat in the grass and creeps forward like a cat until close enough for the final spring."

The quartering party leader is a part of the S2/S3 planning team.

Step three starts with the movement of the military forces of UNITA to quartering areas.

Some are very fast running dogs with a big, wide natural quartering pattern - ideal for hunting on big plains or fields.

Roobios-also called African red tea; the herb is touted as a rich source of antioxidants, flavanoids, and quartering, luteolin and phenolic acids.

For this exploit he received, in 1774, the honorific epithet Chesmensky, and the privilege of quartering the imperial arms in his shield.

Connected with Manila by electric railway is Fort William McKinley, a U.S. army post in the hills five miles away, quartering about 3000 men.