Assigned or appropriate position. to keep quarter: to keep one's own place. to hold quarter with: to remain beside. quarter of assembly: a point of…

intransitive (for reflexive). To press, get, ‘stick’, or lie close (to, in, etc. any thing). Now chiefly Scottish.

To hold together; to be associated, united, or mutually dependent; spec. (of a person) to keep body and soul together, to continue to exist.

transitive (originally Nautical). To keep as close as possible to (the shore, etc.); to ‘cling to’.

transferred. To be or remain close to, as if attached.