quartering

Nautical: Sailing large but not before the wind.

Being on the quarter, or between the line of the keel and the beam, abaft the latter: as, a quartering wind.

In archery, making an acute angle with the range: said of the wind.

The change of the moon from one quarter to the next.

The act of dividing into fourths.

The act of assigning quarters, as for soldiers.

Quarters; lodging; a station.

In heraldry, the marshaling or disposal of various escutcheons in one, in order to denote the several alliances of one family with the heiresses of others.

In carpentry, a series of small vertical timber posts, rarely exceeding 4 by 3 inches, used to form a partition for the separation or boundary of apartments.

In gunnery, the position or placing of a piece of ordnance when it is so traversed that it will shoot on the same line, or on the same point of the compass, as that on which the ship’s quarter has its bearing.