quartering
noun, adjective
Also a form of quarter
Forms quarterings
- noun A division into four parts.
- noun The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- noun The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- noun (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- noun (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- noun (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- noun (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- noun (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.
- adjective (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- adjective (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
- adjective (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
Etymology
By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; --said of waves or any moving object.
- adjective At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- noun A station. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.
- noun Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “quartering”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details