Word Meanings - QUARTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of

Additional info about word: QUARTER

The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings. One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. Note: When two coats of arms are united upon one escutcheon, as in case of marriage, the first and fourth quarters display one shield, the second and third the other. See Quarter, v. t., 5. One of the four parts into which the horizon is regarded as divided; a cardinal point; a direction' principal division; a region; a territory. Scouts each coast light-armed scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe. Milton. A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud. The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11° 15', that is, about 2° 49'; -- called also quarter point. 2. Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location. Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements. Milton. Hence, specifically: A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural. Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural. The banter turned as to what quarters each would find. W. Irving. pl. (more info) 1. One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. Hence, specifically: The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal. Hutton. The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full. One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters. That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUARTER)

• Encamp
• Settle
• pitch
• quarter
• bivouac
• Tract
• District
• region
• piece
• patch

Related words: (words related to QUARTER)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• ENCAMPMENT
  1. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest. 2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. A square of about
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PITCHWORK
  The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
• QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• PITCHER
  1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.
• QUARTERON
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• PITCH
  See AMERICA (more info) 1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.,
• QUARTERPACE
  A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• WATER PITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.