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Quartering

noun

A coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages.

Living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel).

Dividing into four equal parts.

Quarter

verb

(past & past part. quartered; pres. part. quartering)

Provide housing for (military personnel). Synonyms: billet, canton.

Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him. Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter.

Divide into quarters.

Divide by four; divide into quarters.

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"Quartering" Quotes from Famous Books

... affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our Consent: ...

— The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America • Thomas Jefferson

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... matter very lightly. In Bremen, for example, where the quartering of Landsturmers (the oldest Germans called to military service) among the people resulted in a large batch of illegitimate children, I found it the custom, even in mixed society of the higher circles, to refer to them jokingly ...

— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin

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... to take the flocks up into the mountains or on the high plateaus during the summer, quartering them near some spring or small stream, and when the snow comes they are moved down to the lower foothills or out into the valleys. In the winter both shepherds and sheep depend on the snow for their water ...

— Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 • Cosmos Mindeleff

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... log-huts, but of late extensive houses built for the accommodation and quartering of troops. Also, the portion of the lower deck where the marines mess. Also, little cabins made by Spanish fishermen on the sea-shore, called barracas, ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

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... such men as Arnold and Bettys contrasts with that of Samuel Adams and his fellow-patriots!" remarked Warner. "When the first resistance was made to quartering the British troops in Boston, Samuel Adams was the leader and mouth-piece of the patriots, and the royal rulers of Massachusetts tried every way to induce him to abandon the cause he had espoused. In the first place, they threatened him ...

— The Yankee Tea-party - Or, Boston in 1773 • Henry C. Watson

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