quartering

== English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, quarter +‎ -ing. === Verb === quartering present participle and gerund of quarter === Noun === quartering (countable and uncountable, plural quarterings) A division into four parts. The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen. The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces. (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments. (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer. (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes). (hunting) 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 'quartering' the field. A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground. ==== Derived terms ==== quartering block ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === quartering (not comparable) (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object. (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component. (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other. ==== Derived terms ==== quartering sea