WordWeb Online

1. A coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
    
2. Living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
    
3. Dividing into four equal parts

1. Provide housing for (military personnel)
   - billet, canton
    
2. Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
   "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
   - draw, draw and quarter
    
3. Divide into quarters
   "quarter an apple"
    
4. Divide by four; divide into quarters

Derived forms: quarterings

See also: quarters

Type of: accommodate, arms, blazon, blazonry, coat of arms, divide, division, fraction, housing, kill, living accommodations, lodge, lodging, section, segment

Encyclopedia: Quarter