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How to use quartering in a sentence

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The marechal des logis was the administrative officer responsible for encamping and quartering troops.
In quartersawing, lumber is produced by first quartering the log and then sawing perpendicular to the growth rings.
A single unpaved avenue split the town down the middle, from north to south, the river quartering it east to west.
Whilst setting up, I noticed a Black Kite quartering the river and it was not until much later that I found out that this was a rare sighting.
It depicts a massive Cape buffalo quartering through low scrub and staring at the viewer.
You're halving then quartering a bucked section of oak with the splitting maul.
I certainly am glad that the US Constitution forbids quartering of soldiers in my house.
The Angolan government set up quartering centres, expecting 55,000 UNITA troops to give themselves up.
I've only heard rumors of you, Amseth, and was delightfully shocked to see you quartering here, in my mistress' home.
A common way to move a brigade support area is to send out a quartering party to establish a new operating area before moving the main body.
The quartering of soldiers upon peasants and citizens generated severe altercations, mostly concerning rations and pay.
The U.S. Constitution specifically prohibited the European practice of quartering soldiers in private homes.
No more burnings at the stake, no more drawing and quartering, but true freedom to worship.
A purely spatial focus, they argue, is limiting because it encourages static conceptions of walling and quartering.
It was then that I started developing my ideas on the reintroduction of hanging, drawing and quartering for political crimes against the people.
Traditionally a cross was cut into the dough, which helped in the even baking of the bread and assisted in the quartering of the loaf afterwards.
Nearly all the 1,300 prisoners were undoubtedly guilty of treason, for which the sentence was death by hanging, disembowelling, and quartering.
The Scottish business community is ecstatic because, after being hanged and drawn, its quartering has been postponed for a twelvemonth.
These novelists celebrated not just the pleasures of the table but also the joy of the hunt, the quartering and smoking of great sides of game.
The quartering tailwind was not favorable for the landing runway, but it was nothing we hadn't dealt with before.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The methods of marshalling are dimidiation, impalement, quartering, superimposition.
The opera-dancer was as essential to archducal existence as the seventy-seventh quartering on the Hapsburg arms.
A bend flory and counterflory will be found in the arms of Fellows, a quartering of tweedy.
The snow-white spires of the oncoming ship swayed with solemn and stately motions to the underrun of the quartering sea.
The toes should push backward, not quartering, to get the most out of the leg muscles.
Just now she was peeling, quartering, and coring summer apples to dry for winter stores.
He was quartering, head away from us, and we could not see his tusks.
I wondered peevishly why they couldn't put her anywhere else instead of quartering her on me.
When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering across and bent himself stoutly to his work.
The waterspout was going to hit us, quartering on the starboard bow.
The fourth act made provision for quartering troops in Boston.
At the back end of the restaurant Tildy was refilling the mustard pots and Aileen was quartering pies.
Yet there were tiny straws which showed that the wind was quartering.
The quartering of a quarter, or division of a quartered Coat-of-Arms.
Dividing a shield quarterly, with the quartering of any of the quarters.
She will strain much less this way than in quartering across a gale.
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