quarter
noun
one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided.
was quartering
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past progressiveof quarter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He was quartering, head away from us, and we could not see his tusks.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. McCutcheon
He swung the smoke poles till the vent was quartering down, then hoarsely whispered, "How's that?"
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
Yet there were tiny straws which showed that the wind was quartering.
From The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart
Instead of deserted houses we found that nearly every house was quartering soldiers.
From Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them by Arthur Ruhl
His left side was quartering toward Morrow and apparently he was addressing the group as a whole instead of any one man.
From The Settling of the Sage by Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts
