To quarter (soldiers or retainers); to assign lodgings to, to billet; reflexive to take up quarters, encamp. Also absol. Obsolete.

Ireland. To impose (soldiers) upon a community who are to support them at a fixed rate.

To quarter (soldiers) on or upon. Obsolete.

transitive. With on, upon. To impose (soldiers) upon (a householder, town, etc.), to be lodged and fed. Also figurative and in extended use.