quarterings

Meaning of quarterings

noun
  1. A division into four parts.
  2. The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
  3. The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
  4. The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
  5. One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
  6. A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
  7. The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
  8. Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.

Information about quarterings

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of quarterings is: quartering.
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Hyphenation of quarterings

quar-ter-ings

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • quarterings is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with quarterings

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