quartering

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quartering

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By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of quarter

noun quarterings

countable, uncountable A division into four parts. Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
countable, uncountable The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
countable, uncountable The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
countable, uncountable The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
countable, uncountable One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
countable, uncountable A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
countable, historical, uncountable The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
countable, uncountable 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.
countable, uncountable 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. The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.

adjective

not comparable Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object. Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner
broadly, not comparable, of wind Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
not comparable At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.

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noun method of capital punishment

中文	車裂 /车裂 chēliè, 五馬分屍 /五马分尸 wǔmǎfēnshī
Français	écartèlement
Deutsch	Vierteilung
Italiano	squartamento
Ελληνικά	τεταρτιασμός tetartiasmós
Русский	четвертова́ние četvertovánije

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@misc{quartering_2026,
  title = {quartering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quartering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}