quartering

IPA: kwˈɔrtɝɪŋ

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.

(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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