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Meanings of quartering in English
Method of joining several different coats of arms together.
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Usage of quartering in English
1
Yet there were tiny straws which showed that the wind was quartering.
2
He'll conjure you up the Tower, and a hanging, drawing, and quartering.
3
In the Bean, the roots are in four long rows, quartering the stem.
4
You don't want to pay for quartering people longer than you have to.
5
The fourth Bill legalized the quartering of troops within the town of Boston.
6
It will be something like the drawing and quartering punishment of olden times.
7
He learned the rudiments of hunting, of skinning and quartering deer.
8
Sometimes three or four were in sight at once, quartering back and forth.
9
Their punishments continued to be most barbarous, quartering alive being a common practice.
10
The brass cock stood against the sky, quartering west by northwest.
11
By every farm, cottage, and field, they passed invisible, quartering the dark air.
12
But there's no point in quartering off Wyvern and searching every foot of it.
13
Perrin felt the wolves give over quartering behind them and start forward, not hurrying.
14
He stood in the door, half facing them, his left side quartering toward Slade.
15
As before, he scattered his men over the countryside, quartering them on the people.
16
The Chief Justice delivered the sentence for treason: drawing, hanging, disembowelling, beheading, and quartering.
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United Kingdom
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