quartering

[kwawr-ter-ing] / ˈkwɔr tər ɪŋ /

VERB

divide into four equal parts

Synonyms

STRONG

cleave cut dismember fourth

WEAK

cut up

Antonyms

STRONG

join

WEAK

turn away

VERB

provide lodging

Synonyms

STRONG

accommodate billet board bunk canton domicile domiciliate entertain establish harbor house install lodge place post settle shelter station

WEAK

put up

Antonyms

STRONG

confuse disarrange dislodge displace disregard forget leave move remove turn away turn out unsettle

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quartering

Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

I filmed a video as they pulled the cheese apart, a quartering as messy as one in a medieval village square.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

They were not even quartering on the scent.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway