quartering

Noun

 * 1) A division into four parts.
 * 2) The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
 * 3) The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
 * 4)  The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
 * 5)  One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
 * 6)  A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
 * 7)  The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
 * 8)  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 'quatering' the field.
 * 9) 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.
 * 1) 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.

Derived terms

 * quartering block

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: vierendeling
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Vierteilung
 * Greek:
 * Italian: squartamento
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

Adjective

 * 1)  Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
 * 2)  Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
 * 3)  At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
 * 1)  At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.