quartered

Verb

quarter (third-person singular simple present quarters, present participle quartering, simple past and past participle quartered)

1. (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
2. (transitive) To provide housing for (usually military personnel or equipment).
   • Quarter the horses in the third stable.
3. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

   Synonyms:

   stay over

4. (transitive) To quartersaw.
   • But there is, as in other woods, a great deal of difference between this and the quartered timber.1758, Thomas Hale, A Compleat Body Of Husbandry, page 333
5. (historical, transitive) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
6. To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
   • It [the Central London Railway] assumed a modest and entirely heraldic device, quartering the arms of the City of London, the parishes of St. George's, Holborn (St. George and the dragon) and St. Marylebone (the Virgin and Child between two lilies […]), and the county of Middlesex, surmounted by...1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 382

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