0 present participle of quarter
1 to cut something into four parts
2 to send someone, especially soldiers, to live in a place:
Whether this equinoctially based quartering was represented in the earliest city plan or was introduced later still awaits archaeological investigation.
The council's assignment of civic responsibilities - such as the division of the tax burden among the populace, or the quartering of soldiers in town - elicited particularly intense reactions.
One of them has been an assistant quartering commandant.
Since 1949 when the scheme began, some 2,000 such hirings have been taken up for which the officer himself pays only the normal quartering charge.
There are 37 serving officers on the establishment of the directorate of quartering.
I am talking not about hanging, drawing and quartering, but about the guillotine.
Redundant service personnel pay the appropriate quartering charge for the type and grade of quarter occupied until they leave the service.
This money, along with the quartering charge, is stopped from his pay at source.
