Noun:

शत्रु को दी हुई शरण, अट्ठाईस पाउंड का वजन, दिशा, स्थान, मंडल, प्रदेश, चतुर्थ भाग, चौथाई,

Verb:

बसना, पृथक करना, अलग करना, चार बराबर भागों में विभक्त करना,

quartered's Usage Examples:

was induced to pay a visit to the old emperor William in Germany, and during his stay there, in September 1883, he was made honorary colonel of a Uhlan regiment quartered at Strassburg.

His body was quartered and his head fixed on the abbey gate.

Except in South Africa, there are no imperial troops quartered in the self-governing colonies.

Menteith certainly received the blood-money, boo yearly in land, and Wallace, like Montrose, was hanged, disembowelled and quartered (at London, August 1305).

On that occasion, apparently by way of protest against the decree of the diet of Vesteras (r 5th of January 1 544), declaring the Swedish crown hereditary in Gustavus's family, the Danish king caused to be quartered on his daughter's shield not only the three Danish lions and the Norwegian lion with the axe of St Olaf, but also "the three crowns" of Sweden.

The squadron in which Nicholas Rostov served as a cadet was quartered in the German village of Salzeneck.

His corpse, after suffering every indignity, was quartered by the public hangman, and burnt with dung by the Romanist soldiers.

He was kindly noticed by Henry Hervey, a gay officer of noble family, who happened to be quartered there.

His head was set on a spike and his quartered limbs were exposed in various places.

Troops were first quartered in the town in 1768.

Synonyms:

one-fourth, simple fraction, fourth part, fourth, twenty-five percent, quartern, one-quarter, common fraction,

Antonyms:

female, adult, worker, debtor, male,