Noun

• S: (n) quartering (a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages)
• S: (n) quartering (living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel))
• S: (n) quartering (dividing into four equal parts)

Verb

• S: (v) quarter, billet, canton (provide housing for (military personnel))
• domain category
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) lodge, accommodate (provide housing for) "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"
• S: (v) house, put up, domiciliate (provide housing for) "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"
• S: (v) shelter (provide shelter for) "After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people"
• S: (v) supply, provide, render, furnish (give something useful or necessary to) "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
• S: (v) give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody) "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"
• S: (v) transfer (cause to change ownership) "I transferred my stock holdings to my children"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) draw, quarter, draw and quarter (pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him) "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
• S: (v) quarter (divide into quarters) "quarter an apple"
• S: (v) quarter (divide by four; divide into quarters)