Quar″ter (kwär″tẽr), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Quartered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Quartering.] 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.
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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).