Now that troops were quartered in their homes this state of things was speedily changed.
Lafcadio Hearn|Nina H. Kennard
The beef had been quartered and roasted on a spit over a charcoal fire, outside one of the huts.
Francisco Our Little Argentine Cousin|Eva Cannon Brooks
Next we marched to the Curragh camp to be quartered there during the balance of the drill season.
A Soldier's Life|Edwin G. Rundle
To the left, on the borders of the plain; he is quartered in a wood.
The Usurper|Judith Gautier
Soldiers were quartered in the college gates and the kitchens.
Oxford and its Story|Cecil Headlam
British Dictionary definitions for quartered
quartered
/ (ˈkwɔːtəd) /
adjective
heraldry(of a shield) divided into four sections, each having contrasting arms or having two sets of arms, each repeated in diagonally opposite corners
(of a log) sawn into four equal parts along two diameters at right angles to each other; quartersawn