quarter
noun
one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided.
have quartered
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present perfectof quarter.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Yes, Auntie, you see, I don't even know where you have quartered us?
From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various
Oh, do let me go, papa!" he added, "My servant can accompany us, to satisfy propriety, Sir Robert; and you know I have quartered three horses upon you.
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
They never boasted of their families, though some of them might have quartered the royal arms of Scotland on their shields.
From The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon
They seem, like the Franks of Clovis, to have quartered themselves as "guests" upon the unhappy people of the land.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
Friend and foe have quartered there, until they have changed it into a desert; famine and pestilence hold sway there, and the despairing inhabitants have left their fields untilled and wander about shelterless and hungry.
From The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
