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QUARTERING.
MSS. Conim. App. v. 58 Your petitioner was heretofore
charged with the quartering of two private souldiers. 1705
Lond.Gaz.'No. 4098/2 The Inhabitants. . much impoverished
by the Quartering of Soldiers. 1867 SMILES Huguenots
Eng. xii. (1880)205 In anticipation of the quartering of the
dragoons on the family, his wife had gone into concealment.
4. Build, a. The placing or using of quarters
in construction, b. Work formed of quarters, c.
Wood in the form, or of the size, of quarters.
1703 T. N. City ff C. Purchaser 232 Quartering .. signifies
the putting in of Quarters. Sometimes 'tis us'd to signifie
the Quarters themselves. 1815 J. NICHOLSON Opcrat.
Mechanic 580 The braces should be rated . . at a superior
price to that of the quartering*. 1854 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc.
XV. 255 Farms, .built of quartering and weather boarding.
5. Driving on the quarters of a road.
1815 SCOTT PauTs Lett. (1839) 207 The French postilions
..contrived, by dint of quartering and tugging, to drag us
safe through. i8$ C. M. WESTMACOTT Eng. Spy 1. 313 No
ruts or quarterings now.
6. The moon's passage from one quarter to
another also = ; QUARTER 8 b.
1854 L. TOMLINSON tr. Arago's Astron. 67 Changes of
weather are not more frequent at the moon s quarterings
than at any other period. 1880 L. WALLACE Ben-llvr 234
Before the new moon .. passes into its next quartering.
7. attrib. and Comb., as quartering-block, -knife ;
quartering-belt, a belt connecting pulleys which
have their axles at right angles to each other
(Knight Diet. Mech. 1875); quartering-hammer,
a steel-hammer with which the rough masses of
flint are shaped for flaking (ibid.") ; quartering-
raachine, a machine for boring the wrist-pin
holes in driving-wheels a quarter of a circle apart
(ibid.} ; ) quarteriug-mouey, money paid in lieu
of giving quarters to soldiers.
1688 in 'WoAravHisi.Ch.Scot.(\T2i) 1.283 Exacting Cess
or Quartering-money for more Soldiers' than were actually
present. 1818 COBBETT Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 425 Why do
they . . resort to gags, dungeons, halters, axes, and quarteringknives
? 1855 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. xii. HI. 218 Those who
were doomed to the gallows and the quartering block.
Quartering (kwg-jtarin),///. a.
[f. QUARTER
v. + -ING 2 .] That quarters, in senses of the vb.
1591 SHAKS. i Hen. fl,n. ii. 11 You tempt the fury of my
three attendants, Leane Famine, quartering Steele, and
climbing Fire. 1692 Capt. Smith's Seaman 's Gram. I. xvi.
76 The Ship goes Lasking, Quartering, Veering, or Large ;
are terms of the same signification, viz. that she neither goes
by a Wind nor before the Wind, but betwixt both. 1701-11
Milit. fy Sea Diet. (ed. 4) 11, Quartering, is when a Gun lies
so, and may be so travers'd, that it will shoot on the same
Line, or Point of the Compass as the Quarter bears. 1765
Museum Rusticum IV. 341 The track was just of a proper
breadth for post-chaises and all quartering carriages to run
in. 1769 FALCONER Diet. Marine (1789), Vent Largue, a
large, or quartering wind. 1860 MAURY Phys. Geog. Sea
(Low) xx. 815 Through the former [ocean] the wind is aft ;
through the latter quartering. 1893 Times 13 June 12/1
Sheets trimmed for a quartering breeze.
t Quarteriza-tion. Obs. rare-". (See quot.)
1717-41 CHAMBERS Cycl., Quartcrization, Quartering,
part of the punishment of a traitor, by dividing his boay
into four quarters.
Quarter-jack.
1. [JACK f*;i 6.] A jack of the clock which strikes
the quarters.
1604 MIDDLETON Father HubbanTs T. Wks. (Bullen)
VIII. 54 The quarter-jacks in Paul's, that are up with
their elbows four times an hour. 1771 [see JACK sb. 1
6],
1874 T. HARDY Far fr. Mad. Crowd I. xvi. 190 A little
canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it.
2. QAf j^.7] A jack-boot cut down.
iooy A. Sir Frantic the Reformer 75 His first born
Long with these boots did's shanks adorn, Until . . He made
them into quarter-jacks.
Qua'rterland. A certain division of land in
the Isle of Man, originally the fourth part of a
also the class of lands included in
treen or balla ;
such divisions.
Called '
Quarter of Land* in 1593 (Statutes 78) ; see also
quarter-ground s.v. QUARTER so. 30.
1645 Statutes Isle Man (1821) 107 Lands and Tenements
in the said Island called Farme Lands or Quarter Lands.
FELTHAM Tour Isi. Mann iv. 46 Divisions of land
1798 J.
prevail here, termed Quarterlands. It is uncertain how
they obtained the name. 1845 TRAIN Isle Man I. 51 For
each four quarterlands he made a chapel. 1865 Notes . 15) is app. the original meaning of F. quartier-
QTJARTERN.
maitre, Du. kwartier-meester, G. quartier-meister,
etc., and may have been adopted from one or
other of these languages.]
1. JVatil. A petty officer who attends to the
steering of the ship, the binnacle, signals, stowing
of the hold, etc.
1442 Rolls^ Parlt. V. 60/1 The Maisters of the Shippes,
Quarter Maisters, Shipmen and Soudeours. 1509 BARCLAY
Shyp of Folys (1570) rr iij, Purser and Captayne, Quarter
master, Lodesman. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 41 Euery quartar
master til his auen quartar. 1626 CAPT. SMITH Accid. Yng.
Seamen 5 The quarter^
Maisters hath the charge of the hold
for stowage, rommageing, and trimming the shippe ; and of
their squadrons for their watch. 1643 Decliir. Commons,
Reb. Irel. 50 He is one of the Quarter-masters of the Dunkirke
Frigot. 1708 Royal Proclam. 20 May in Lond. Gaz.
No. 4440/1 The . . Midshipmen, Quarter-Master, Quarter-
Masters Mates,, .and
Serjeants
of Marines. 1836 MARRVAT
Midsh. Easy xxvi, Up with the helm, quarter-master.
b. transf. Steering-gear.
i88j Standard 26 Dec. 2/2 She will have a brigantine rig,
. . and [be] steered by a steam '
quartermaster '. 1899 F. T.
BULLEN Way Nary 37 Like everything else in this giant
vessel, the steam quartermaster is on an immense scale.
2. Mil. An officer, ranking as lieutenant, attached
to each regiment, with the duties of providing
quarters for the soldiers, laying out the camp, and
looking after the rations, ammunition and other
supplies of the regiment.
1600 DYMMOK Ireland (1843) 33 The small losse we susteyned
. . was multiplied upon the rebell by our quarter and
skoutmasters. a 1653 GOUGE Conim. Heb. vi. 18 A quartermaster,
who goeth Ijefore hand to prepare quarters for
souldiers. 1711 DE FOE Mem. Cavafier (1840) 97 The king
. .made him a quarter-master to a troop of Cuirassiers. 1803
WELLINGTON Let. to Col. Stevenson 16 Sept. in Gurw. Desp.
(1837) II. 308, I rather believe that your Quarter Masters
have 1000 bullocks for each regiment. 1893 FORBES-
MITCHELL Remin. Gt. Mutiny 150 Our quartermaster
divided among us a lot of shirts and underclothing.
b. Quartermaster-general, a staff-officer who
is chief of the department exercising control over
all matters relating to the quartering, encamping,
marching and equipment of troops.
1701 Lond. Gaz. No. 3732/1 The said Quartermaster-
General and Adjutant-General Baron Riedt were sent out
to view the Ground. 1813 WELLINGTON Let. to Sir G.
Cnllier 19 Aug. in Gurw. Desp. (1838) XL 15, I enclose a
letter to the Quarter Master General directing that the
Infantry now in the horse ships at Bilbao may be removed.
1876 BANCROFT Hist. U. S. V. xliv. 35 Mifflin, who in August
had been appointed quartermaster-general.
C. Quartermaster-sergeant, a non-commissioned
officer, ranking as a staff-sergeant, who
assists the quartermaster in his duties.
1869 E. A. PARKES Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3} 309 The Serjeantmajor
and Quarter-master-Serjeant are entitled to two rooms
and a kitchen.
t 3. One who shares authority with another to the
extent of a fourth. Obs.
Prob. transf. from sense i, with pun on quarter =: one
fourth ; cf. QUARTER sb. 27 d.
1550 LATIMER Last Serm. bef. Ediv, VI in They do it,
because they will be quarter maister with their husbandes :
Quarter maister ? nay halfe maisters: yea some of them will
be whole maisters. 1617 COLLINS Def. Bp. Ely i. i. 7 Discerne
you no better betweene Popes and Councels, which
are the Church in effect ? or shall these play quartermasters
with the Pope ? 1685 R. BURTON Eng. Emp. Amer.
ii. 28 The English Nation . . might have made themselves
Quarter-Masters, at least with the Spaniards.
1 4. A gild-official, having charge of the gildsmen
in a quarter of the town. Obs.
1646 in G. Tate Alnwick II. xvii. 338 It is agreed that
none of the wood shall be sould but with the consent of the
four quartermaisters. [1868-90. TATE.^/w*V II. xvii. 338
Wood and bark were therefore bought for the whole company,
by officers called quartermasters, who allotted to each
tanner a proportional share of every purchase.]
Hence Qua-rterma ster v., to perform the
duties of a quartermaster (hence quartermastering
vbl. sb.) ; Qtiartermasterlveness, the qualities
of a quartermaster (nonce-ivd.) ; Quartermastership,
the office of quartermaster (so
also Quartermasler-generalsh
ip\
1745 Obscrv. Cone. Navy 44 Sales of Ensignships, Adjutancies,
Quarter-Master-ships, &c. 1824 M cCuLLOCH Scotland I.
370 His organ of quarter-masteriveness must have been woefully
in arrear. l86a Times 8 Jan. 8/6 Questions of massing,
manoeuvring, or quartermastering. 1870 Daily News 3 Nov.,
The quartermastership..of the district around Metz. 1876
BANCROFT Hist. U. S. VI. Index 553 [Greene] resigns [the]
quartermaster-generalship abruptly.
f Quartern, sb. 1 Obs. Forms: i cweartern,
-en, owert-, cwiertern, 1-2 owart-, quartern,
3 cwarrt-, quarrterrne, cwart- , quarter ne.
[Of obscure origin, poss. an alteration of OE.
carciern, carcern, ad. L. career.] A prison.
C975 Rush. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 39 Hwonne we be sefcun
untrymne obSe in quartern ? c 1000 J^ELFRIC Exod. xl. 3 pa
dyde hix man on cweartern . . and Jses cwearternes hirde
betxhte hrg losepe. c 1154 O. E. Chron. an. 1137 Hi dyden
heom in quarterne. c laoo ORMIN 6168 Himm patt i cwarrterrne
tip Forrbundenn. Ibid. 18187 Inntill quarrterrne
worrpenn. c 1205 [see QuALE 1 b]. a 1225 Leg. Kath. 670
AI be cwarterne of his cume leitede o leie.
Quartern. (kwutain), sb.'* Forms : 3-7
quartron, (4 -run, -roun, -eroun, quaterone,
6 -eren), 5-7 quarteron, (5 -eren, -rone), 6-7
quarterne, ^7 coterne), 7-9 Ir. cartron, 9 quar-