quartering
quartering is a 10-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Quartter. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- present participle. of Quartter
- adjective. Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
- adjective. At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- noun. A station.
- noun. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
- noun. The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- noun. One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- noun. A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.)
- noun. dividing into four equal parts
- noun. living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- noun. a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
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