QUARTERING
\kwˈɔːtəɹɪŋ], \kwˈɔːtəɹɪŋ], \k_w_ˈɔː_t_ə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of QUARTERING
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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dividing into four equal parts
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living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
By Princeton University
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dividing into four equal parts
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living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
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A station.
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Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
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One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
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A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.)
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Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; - said of waves or any moving object.
By Oddity Software
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At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
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A station.
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Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
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One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
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A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.)
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Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; - said of waves or any moving object.
By Noah Webster.
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Assignment to lodgings, etc., as soldiers; the placing of more than one coat of arms on a shield to show the different families from whom a person is descended; any one of the coats of arms.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In arch., a series of quarters; in mil., assignment of quarters; in her., one of the divisions of a shield containing many coats.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Act of dividing or separating in parts;- a station; an assignment of quarters or lodgings for soldiers; billet;- in heraldry, the partition of a shield into compartments, originally four, but often more according to the number of families who, by intermarriage, add their coat of arms to the family arms.
