QUARTER

Definitions

1. 1. To divide into four equal parts.
2. 2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions. Then sailors quartered heaven. Dryden.
3. 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. 4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.] This isle . . . He quarters to his blue-haired deities. Milton.
5. 5. To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms.