quartering

1. To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
2. To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.

   Quarter the horses in the third stable.

3. To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
4. To quartersaw.

verb

To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

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.

1. Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
2. At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.