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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Quarter \Quar"ter\ (kw[aum]r"t[~e]r), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Quartered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quartering}.]
1. To divide into four equal parts.
2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions.
Then sailors quartered heaven. --Dryden.
3. To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers.
They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered. --Shak.
4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.]
This isle . . . He quarters to his blue-haired deities. -- Milton.
5. (Her.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms.
Note: When only two coats of arms are so combined they are arranged in four compartments. See {Quarter}, noun, 1 (f) .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Quartered \Quar"tered\, adjective
1. Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. Furnished with quarters; provided with shelter or entertainment. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "quartered": billeted, cleft, cloven, cracked, cut, domiciled, domiciliated, housed, in pieces, in shreds, lacerate, lacerated, mangled, mutilated, quadrifid, quadrifoliate, quadriform, quadrifurcate, quadrigeminal, quadripartite, quadripinnate, quadriplanar, quadrisected, quadrivial, quadrumanal, quadrumanous, ragged, rent, riven, severed, shredded, slit, splintered, split, stabled, tattered, torn
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