quartering
IPA: kwˈɔrtɝɪŋ
noun
- A division into four parts.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- (hunting) 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.
- A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
adjective
- (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
- (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
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Examples of "quartering" in Sentences
- This process is called quartering, and ensures that the remaining portion is "average quality".
- When your dog is solid on quartering and retrieving off the quartering is a great time to introduce the gun.
- This method is called quartering (fig. 147) and ensures that the final sample is representative of the bulk of the clay.
- They were perfectly justified in defending their property, and the idea of quartering them, as well as hanging them, just as if they were traitors of the worst dye, is nothing short of monstrous.
- The last thing to be done is to cut the "quartering" to the length and angle required, to determine upon the shape and size of the neck, and to fix the neck block (see Fig. 27) to the "quartering" by screws.
- In this Marshalling the first quarter is occupied by the most important quartering, which is determined (without any fixed rule) by the original grant or licence: the other quarterings follow, in the order in which they may have been “brought in” to the composition.
- Over recent weeks the WFP has started feeding an extra 120,000 desperately hungry people who were until recently completely cut off from aid due to the war, including families of former UNITA soldiers being demobilized across the country in some 34 so-called quartering areas.
- This method was, after making a rough drawing and calculation as to the positions the specimens would occupy in the case, to nail strips of "quartering" across the backs of the cases, to which again were nailed strips of 0.75 in. wood, crossing in all directions, but especially where the drawings indicated a mass of rock.
- A slot to receive the board should have been previously cut in the plaster under-jaw of the model, or, in a more simple and efficient manner (see Fig. 31), by procuring a piece of "quartering," 3 in. x 2 in, about 2 ft. in length, cutting a channel in the under-jaw and the back of the head to fit it, wedging up, and pouring in wet plaster to make all secure.