Definition of "quartering" in English

verb

1. present participle and gerund of quarter

noun

1. A division into four parts.

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

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

4. (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.

5. (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.

6. (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.

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

8. (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 'quartering' the field.

9. 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

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

2. (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.

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