[f. QUARTER v. + -ING2.] That quarters, in senses of the vb.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., IV. ii. 11. You tempt the fury of my three attendants, Leane Famine, quartering Steele, and climbing Fire.
1692. Capt. Smith’s Seaman’s Gram., I. xvi. 76. The Ship goes Lasking, Quartering, Veering, or Large; are terms of the same signification, viz. that she neither goes by a Wind nor before the Wind, but betwixt both.
1702–11. Milit. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4), II. Quartering, is when a Gun lies so, and may be so travers’d, that it will shoot on the same Line, or Point of the Compass as the Quarter bears.
1765. Museum Rusticum, IV. 341. The track was just of a proper breadth for post-chaises and all quartering carriages to run in.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Vent Largue, a large, or quartering wind.
1860. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea (Low), xx. § 815. Through the former [ocean] the wind is aft; through the latter quartering.
1893. Times, 13 June, 12/1. Sheets trimmed for a quartering breeze.
