QUARTER. lings of the timbers of a quarter partition should vary according to the extent of bearing. 1678 PHILLIPS (ed. 4), ^Quarter Pierced^ in Heraldry is when there is a hole of a square form made in the middle of a Cross. 1893 CUSSANS Her. (ed. 4) 63 The Cross.. If.. that part where the limbs are conjoined be removed, it is termea Quarterly-pierced. A Cross with a square aperture in its centre, smaller than the last example, is Quarter-pierced. 1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. 111.273 ' A 'lialf'plate or a ' *quarter-plate ' lens. Ibid. A t beginner buying his first quarter-plate outfit. 1856 OLMSTED Slave States 3 Three yards of ragged and faded "quarter-ply car- peting, 1717-41 CHAMBERS Cycl. s.v. Point, Half of that, or 2 48' 3, [is] a *quarter point, 1769 FALCONER Diet. Marine (1789), The quarter-points of the Compass., are distinguished, .by the word by. 1840 MARRYAT Olio. Podr. 111.26 How was it possible that a man could navigate a ship with only one quarter point of the compass in nis head? 1825 9 W. BERRY Encycl. Htr.>* Quarter-pointed,, .extending from dexter chief towards the base, and terminated in the fesse point. It.. is just one-fourth part of a partition per saltier. 1894 Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 142/2 Held his place until the "quarter-pole was reached. 1663 DRYDEN ll'ilti Gallant i. i. Wks. 1882 II. 35 A bare clinch will serve the turn ; a carwichet, a or a "quarter-quibble, pun. 1719 T. COOKE Tales, etc. 96 Quarter-quibbles made his Heart right glad. 1791 Descr. Kentucky 12 His time is employed in "quarter-races, cock-fights. 1885 Century Mag. XXX. 397/2 In North Carolina., quarter-races were much esteemed. 1884 F. J, BRITTEN Watch fy Clockm. 219 The "quarter rack . .falls against the bent arm of the hour rack hook, a 1613 OVERBURY Characters^ Sargeant Wks. (1856) 163 The gaflowes are his purlues, in which the hangman and heearethe "Quarter-rangers. 1884 F. J. BRITTEN Watch $ Clockm. 224 In a "quarter repeater the last hour is struck, and afterwards the number ofquarters that have elapsed since. 183* Regul. Instr. Cavalry n. 72 The . . Troops wheel "quarter right. Ibid. 90 The previous command is given, Squadrons quarter or halfright. 1767 A. YOUNG Lett, to People 282 A broad-wheel waggon will go in any "quarter-road, 1706 PHILLIPS (ed. Kersey), Echinus. .\% termed .. Ovolo by the Italians; but the English Workmen commonly call it the "Quarter-round. *753 HOGARTH Anal. Beauty xii. 171 Let us observe the ' ovolo or ', quarter-round, in a cornice. 1851 TURNER Dom. Archit. II. vi. 372 The arches and purlins are well moulded, with the quarter round and fillet. 15.. Merie Tales of Skelton S-'s Wks. 1843 I. p. Ixx, The miller hauying a great "quarter sacke. ax66i FULLER Worthies, Catnbridge i. (1662) 156 Quarter-sacks were here first used, men commonly carrying . . eight bushels of Early. 1884 F. J. BRITTEN Watch fy Clockm. 25 Drawing out the "quarter screws of the balance nearest the fast . . position and setting in the ones nearest to slow position. 1706 Act 6 Anne c. n Art, xxiv, The privy seal. ."quarter seal and seals of Courts now used in Scotland. 1879 LD. BEACONSFIELD Sp. 18 Sept. 2/3 Every man of fair character who comes to Canada, has a right.. to obtain what is called a "quarter-section of land. i88a Contemp. Rev. Aug. 233 Each township, section, and quarter-section .. marked off by mounds and posts. 1876 VOYLE & STEVENSON Milit. Diet. 385/2 In smooth-bore guns, "quarter-sights are cut on the upper quarter of the base ring, and numbered up to 3. 1867 SMYTH Sailor's Word-bit.^ *Quarter-Slings, are supports attached to a yard or other spar at one or both sides of (but not in) its centre. 1881 F. J. BRITTEN Watch $ Clockm. 219 [The] "Quarter Snail . . [is] the snail used in the quarter part of clocks and repeating watches. 1448 in Bacon Ann. Ipswich 105 John Lackford accused for cheating at Games called Whistilds, Prelleds, and "Quarter spells. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 199/2 A table which gives the squares of the halves of numbers will, by the addition of the squares of the halves or "quarter-squares, give the product. 1559 AYLMER Harborowe H,Theymust know their "quarter strookes, and the waye how to defende their head. 1589 Marprel. Epit. D ij, Such a precher. -as this, would quickly with his quarter strokes, ouerturneal religion. iTSoCowpER Table Talk 531 The clock-work tintinnabulum of rhyme,., such mere quarter-strokes are not for me. 1711 J. JAMES tr. Le Blond's Gardening 71 They make use. .of *Quarter' Stuff for large Plinths and Facias. 1799 Naval Chron. II. 389 Timber . . , blocks, quarterstuff, candles. 1815 Falconer's Mar. Z>*V/.(ed. Kmnizy)*Quarter-tackle, a strong tackle fixed occasionally upon the quarter of the main- or fore-yard, to hoist boats and heavy packages into and out of the ship. 1641 BEST Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 132 For burying of Corne by "Quarter-tayle . . to have 6W. a quarter for barley, ^d, a I quarter for oates. z6oi HOLLAND Pliny I. 488 The "quarter j timber, or that which runneth with foure grains, is simply the best. 1846 A. YOUNG Nant. Diet. 243 Quarter-timbers, (cf. 2 b). a. things in general. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 18 Take a . Capoun .quarter hym. cigoo in Prymer (E. E. T. S.) 171 Take a penyworthe of hyt, and quarter hyt in fowre. c 1590 MARLOWE /*,?/. vii, The streets . . Quarter the town in four Equivalents. 1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. 284 As for the divisions of the yeare, and the quartering out this remarkable standard 30 of time [etc.]. 1735 POPE Donne Sat. iv. 136 He knows . . Whose place is quarter'd out, three parts in four. 1796 MRS. &I.&SSE. Cookery x\v. 260 Pare and quarter your apples and take out the cores. 1860 READF, Cloister k., Quarter to drive uphill in such a way that the horse crosses the road backwards and forwards so as to diminish the gradient. d. intr. To move in a slanting direction. the framing limbers in a vessel's quarter. 1776 BURNF.Y Hist. Mus. (1789) I. ii. 23 A Diesis or "Quarter-tone. 1811 BUSBY Diet. Mus. s.v., The Quarter-tone is of two kinds, viz. the major-enharmonic . . and the enharmonic minor. 1866 ENGEL Nat. Mus. ii. 45 The seven intervals of the Hindu Scale . . are subdivided into twenty-two srooti, corresponding to quarter-tones. 1888 JL C. HARRIS Free foe, etc. 10 There was a "quarter-track,, .if he chose., horse-racing. 1810 Snorting Mag. XXXVI. 272 A "quarter turn, which is the kind of rifle the line uses. 1661 MORGAN Spk. Gentry u. iii. 29 Or . . a Crosse "quarter-voided azure. 1701-11 Milit. t? Sea Diet. (ed. 4) u, ^Quarter- Watch is when a Quarter of the Ship's Company watches, which is us'd in Harbour, when there is no Danger. 1769 FALCONER Diet. Marine (1789), Faire la petite Bordee, to set the quarter-watch. 1887 G. B. GOODE Fisheries (7. S. V. ii. 229 On the whaling ground., they stand ' quarter-watches \ >77-4i CHAMBERS Cycl. t *Quarter-w/ieeling..mtiie military art, is a motion whereby the front of a body of men is turned round to where the flank was. 16x1 in Cheshire Gloss. 275 "Quarter wood att the^ wiche howses. Quarter (kwgutw), v. Also station, place 4-6 quartre. [f. QUARTER sb. AF. quarter^ is found c 1350.] 1. trans. To cut into quarters ; to divide into four equal or equivalent parts. Also with out or lodge in a particular place. Also pass. = to have one's abode, lodging, etc. 1594 SHAKS. Rick, ///, v. iiL 34 Where is Lord Stanley quarter'd, do you know? 1665 MANLEY Grotius 1 Lo^v C. Warres 221 The Duke of Parma all this Winter, quarter'd his men in the village of Brabant. 1713 DE FOE Col. Jack (1840) 233 After this campaign I was quartered at Cremona. 1795 WELLINGTON in Gurw. DesP. (1837) I. 2 The 33*-* Regiment was landed and quartered at Poole. 1822 W. IRVING Braceb. Hall i. 4, I am again quartered in the panelled chamber. i88a B. D. W. RAMSAY Recoil. Mil. Serv. I. i. 5 He was then quartered in Edinburgh as a lieutenant. b. With : on, upon To impose (soldiers) upon (a householder, town, etc.), to be lodged and fed. 1683 Apol. Prof. France ii. 29 He quartered his Men upon those of the Protestant Religion. 1815 J. W. CROKER in C. Papers 14 July (1884), Blucher has quartered a guard of Prussians on him. 1874 GREBN Short Hist. \\\\. 3. 485 Soldiers were quartered on recalcitrant boroughs. trans/, and Jig. 1663 BUTLER Hud. i. ii. 274 He'd suck his Claws And quarter himself upon his Paws. 1714 Sfect. No. 595 f 6 You have Quartered all the foul Language upon me, that could be raked out of the Air of Billingsgate. 1812 L. HUNT in Examiner 24 Aug. 531/1 Those upon whom the Attorney-General is pleased to quarter his attentions. 1874 GREEN Short Hist. in. 5. 139 Italian clergy were quartered on the best livings of the Church. 5. intr. To take up (one's) quarters; to stay, reside, lodge. (Freq. in i;th c.) 1581 SAVILE Tacitus, Hist. n. Ixvi. (1591) 91 That they and the cohorts of Batauians should quarter together. 1624 CAPT. SMITH Virginia \\\. ii. 49 That night they quart erd in the woods. 1670 R. MONTAGU in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist MSS. Comm.) I. 482 The whole army .. will quarter there 1894 Outing (U. S.) XXIV. 387/1 The bird quartered past the Judge who had only cut a bunch of feathers from it. 1895 for some time. 17*3 DE FOE Col. Jack (1840) 240 The man in whose house I quartered was exceedingly civil to me. Ibid. XXVI. 401/1 We. .changed our direction so as to 'quarter' by them. 11. intr. To drive a cart or carriage so that the right and left wheels are on (two of) the quarters of a road, with a rut between. Also, of a horse : To walk with the feet thus placed ; hence, to walk in front of the wheel. This is also the sense of F. cartayer, Walloon quateler (Littrei, which are etymological ly related to the Engl. word. 1800 TUKE Agric. 300 Two-horse carts should be drawn by the horses abreast, .oy which means they would be enabled to quarter or stride the ruts. 1806-7 J. BERESFORD Miseries Hum. Life (1826) n. xxvii, A rugged narrow lane in which the ruts refuse to fit your wheels and yet there is no room to quarter. 1847 Jrnl. R. Agric. See. VIII. ii. 277 The carting off the cabbages . . is done with a quarter-cart, as it is termed in Suffolk, having the shafts so placed that the horse walks before the right hand wheel j in other words, it ' quarters '. 1859 MRS. GASKELL Round the So/a 20 We had to quarter, as Randal called it, nearly all the way along the deep-rutted miry lanes. 1879- In dialect glossaries (Shropsh., Chesh., etc.). b. intr. To drive to the side in order to allow another vehicle to pass. (Cf. QUART v.*} 1849 DE QUINCEY Eng. AfailCoach'Wks, 1862 IV. 334 Every creature that met us would rely upon us for quartering. 1866 GEO. ELIOT F. Holt i Elderly gentlemen in ponychaises, quartering nervously to make way [etc.]. c. To set (the shafts of a cart) so that the horse walks in front of one of the wheels. 1847 JrnL R. Agric. Soc. VIII. n. 268 The shafts are quartered, so that the horses (usually two) walk in the furrow followed by one wheel.
QUARTERAGE. 12. intr. Of the moon: To begin a fresh quarter. Also with ;';/. 1789
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