0 past simple and past participle of quarter
1 to cut something into four parts
2 to send someone, especially soldiers, to live in a place:
I wish it were possible to bring back the old-fashioned days when regiments dealt with the ordinary tradesmen in the district -where they were quartered.
If they were quartered in barracks, things would no doubt be different.
The present numbers quartered there are below the average, but at times the fort is fully occupied.
Many troops will be coming back from abroad; could they not be quartered here?
Now, instead of it being doubled it is being quartered.
We are also concerned by reports that most of those being quartered are not front-line troops.
Of 2,053 men quartered there at that time 1,366 were protected and 687 were not, inoculation being voluntary.
I do not think anybody would miss them except those who are quartered on them.
