quarter
noun
one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided.
had quartered
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past perfectof quarter.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Their presence gave the proceedings a wartime feel, and evoked images of the 1860s, when the Union Army had quartered in the building.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2021
And there was a house that had quartered Hessian soldiers fighting for the British during the Revolutionary War — a house owned by an enterprising farmer and weaver who served under George Washington.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2017
But arrived at the spot, they found not only the kill, which they had doubted, but that Keesh had quartered the beasts in true hunter fashion, and removed the entrails.
From Love of Life and Other Stories by Charles Livingston Bull
The soldiery lay in the village, while the officers had quartered themselves close by in the castle, whose inmates had naturally fled.
From A Hero of the Pen by E. Werner
The Scottish army, in order to prevent his purpose, put themselves in motion; and having set fire to the huts in which they had quartered, they descended from the hills.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
