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-
QUARTER-PIECE. tan, dial wartern, 6- quartern, [a. AF. quarfritti, OF. q^^art(e}ron, guat(ti)ron t used in most of the senses of the E. word (see Godef.) f. quart (e, fourth, fourth part.] 1. A quarter
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