quartter Meaning, Definition & Usage

Quart"ter transitive verb

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Quartered ; present participle & verbal noun Quartering

Definitions

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. ✍ When only two coats of arms are so combined they are arranged in four compartments. See Quarter, n., 1 (f).