inhabitancy vs quartering

inhabitancy

noun
  • The condition of inhabiting or of being inhabited; occupancy 

quartering

noun
  • The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen. 

  • The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments. 

  • A division into four parts. 

  • One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer. 

  • The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes). 

  • Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field. 

  • A series of quarters, or small upright posts. 

  • A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground. 

  • The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces. 

adj
  • Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component. 

  • Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object. 

  • At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other. 

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