quartering
Cutting into fourths
Quartering is dividing something into four parts.
Historically, it refers to the gruesome execution method of dismembering a body after hanging—hanged, drawn, and quartered.
In heraldry, quartering means dividing a shield into sections to display multiple coats of arms.
The Third Amendment prohibition against quartering soldiers refers to housing them in private homes without consent.
Shield bearing heraldry
- coat of armsHereditary symbolic emblem
- marshallingOrganizing into proper order
- impalementPiercing through with stake
- fieldArea of specialty
charge · tincture · argent · sable · azure · vert · dexter · sinister
Ordinal for position four
- quadrantFourth of a circle
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- segmentationDivision into sections
- fractionPart divided by whole
portion · slice · piece · subsection · splitting · dividing · carving · cutting
Soldiers' residential building
- billetTemporary military quarters
- garrisonStationed military force
- cantonmentPermanent military station
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
troops · soldiers · military housing · requisition · occupation · bivouac · mess · regiment
escutcheon
Shield bearing heraldry
- coat of armsHereditary symbolic emblem
- marshallingOrganizing into proper order
- impalementPiercing through with stake
field · charge · tincture · argent · sable · azure · vert · dexter · sinister · fess
fourth
Ordinal for position four
- quadrantFourth of a circle
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- segmentationDivision into sections
fraction · portion · slice · piece · subsection · splitting · dividing · carving · cutting · dissecting
barracks
Soldiers' residential building
- billetTemporary military quarters
- garrisonStationed military force
- cantonmentPermanent military station
encampment · troops · soldiers · military housing · requisition · occupation · bivouac · mess · regiment · posting
wind direction
Where air moves from
beam · windward · leeward · heading · course · bearing · running · reaching · helm · compass
- food prepchopping, slicing, dicing, mincing, peeling
- huntingdeer hunting, hunting rifle, hunters, tracking, hunting license
- breaking downsplitting, fragmenting, dividing, breaking up, partitioning
- cuttingslicing, slice, chopping, dice, dicing
- divisiondivision, divide, divided, dividing, split
- meat techniquesroasting, grilling, braising, searing, smoking
quarteringquadrupling
Multiplying by four
doubling · tripling · multiplying · increasing · halving
quarteringevicting
Removing by legal process
expelling · ejecting · ousting · displacing · turning out
quarteringunifying
Making disparate elements one
combining · joining · merging · assembling · consolidating
- drawing and quarteringExecution splitting the body
quarter, quarters, quart, quartet, quarterly, quartered, quarterback, quartermaster, quarterfinal