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quartered

[ kwawr-terd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

divided into quarters.
furnished with quarters or lodging.
(of wood) quartersawed.
Heraldry.
1. (of an escutcheon) divided into four or more parts.
2. (of a cross) having the central square portion removed.

quartered

/ ˈkwɔːtəd /

heraldry (of a shield) divided into four sections, each having contrasting arms or having two sets of arms, each repeated in diagonally opposite corners
(of a log) sawn into four equal parts along two diameters at right angles to each other; quartersawn

First recorded in 1475–85; quarter + -ed ²

And there was the one in Henry VII, with Ray Winstone, where I was drawn and quartered.

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war blah blah blah.

Like practically every other inch of the planet, they can be surveyed and mapped, drawn, quartered, and vivisected by satellite.

His quartered carcass was impaled above other London city gates.

Are we about to see a revisionist pushback on how Hot Rod has already been hanged, drawn, and quartered?

Before tobacco was much known in Germany, some soldiers belonging to a cavalry regiment were quartered in a German village.

It has waved on consecrated banners, and been quartered on the arms of earths proudest monarchs.

Toughs and gamblers poured in, and United States troops were quartered there to keep the peace.

In 1765 a Quartering Act was passed by which 10,000 imperial troops were quartered in the colonies.

In 1857 the Australian colonies agreed to pay the expenses of the imperial garrison quartered in Australia.

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