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Quartering meaning
present participle and gerund of quarter
Synonyms of Quartering
Example sentences (11)
The solution is to modify the shape of the food, and it can be modified by quartering or squashing flat.
Matsonia and Lurline feature a 3,500 TEU containership design with four decks for automobiles, two decks for trailers and a stern quartering ramp.
Even though many local people were against unannounced quartering, sentiment throughout the county remained in favor of the British crown.
In 1822, Britain repealed the death penalty for over 100 crimes, and punishments such as drawing and quartering and flagellation fell out of use.
In addition, the country suffered under the changing fortunes of war and associated movements and quartering.
Latin heraldry is known for extensive use of quartering, because of armorial inheritance via the male and the female lines.
Secondly, following the proposal of René de Marillac and the Marquis of Louvois, he began quartering dragoons in Protestant homes.
Some sources state that Nils was executed by quartering ; Dackeland/Gustav Vasa – Landsfader eller tyrann? by Lars-Olof Larsson.
Such was the public outcry at the horror of their execution that Elizabeth changed the order for the second group to be allowed to hang until "quite dead" before disembowelling and quartering.
They did not suffer the customary fate accorded to traitors quartering and display at the city gates.
This was extended to quartering of the lion and the Bavarian Arms upon the ascension of Maximilian I to the position of elector of the Palatinate in 1623, used concurrently with the arms shown.