quarter
/ˈk(w)oɹ.tɚ/ verb C2- To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- To provide housing for (usually military personnel or equipment). · Quarter the horses in the third stable.
- To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- To quartersaw.
- To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
- To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
- To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
He/she/it quarters · Past quartered · Past participle quartered · -ing form quartering
Verb forms
- Base form
- quarter
- He/she/it
- quarters
- Past
- quartered
- Past participle
- quartered
- -ing form
- quartering
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He arrayed himself in the regalia of millionaires and presidents; he took himself to the quarter where life is brightest and showiest, and there dined with taste and luxury.
The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.
Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde’s Hollow.
And it’s a quarter to three.
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