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quartered

/kwawr-terd/US // ˈkwɔr tərd //UK // (ˈkwɔːtəd) //

被四封,四分,被四,被四分

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : divided into quarters.
    • : furnished with quarters or lodging.
    • : quartersawed.
    • : Heraldry. divided into four or more parts. having the central square portion removed.

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Examples

  • And there was the one in Henry VII, with Ray Winstone, where I was drawn and quartered.

  • No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war blah blah blah.

  • Like practically every other inch of the planet, they can be surveyed and mapped, drawn, quartered, and vivisected by satellite.

  • His quartered carcass was impaled above other London city gates.

  • Are we about to see a revisionist pushback on how Hot Rod has already been hanged, drawn, and quartered?

  • Before tobacco was much known in Germany, some soldiers belonging to a cavalry regiment were quartered in a German village.

  • It has waved on consecrated banners, and been quartered on the arms of earths proudest monarchs.

  • Toughs and gamblers poured in, and United States troops were quartered there to keep the peace.

  • In 1765 a Quartering Act was passed by which 10,000 imperial troops were quartered in the colonies.

  • In 1857 the Australian colonies agreed to pay the expenses of the imperial garrison quartered in Australia.