Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Quartering \Quar"ter*ing\, n.
   1. A station. [Obs.] --Bp. Montagu.

   2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.

   3. (Her.)
      (a) The division of a shield containing different coats of
          arms into four or more compartments.
      (b) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an
          escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.

   4. (Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See
      {Quarter}, n., 1
      (m) (Arch.) --Gwilt.

   {Quartering block}, a block on which the body of a condemned
      criminal was quartered. --Macaulay.