Quartering may refer to: * Dividing into four parts: **

Dismemberment Dismemberment is the act of cutting, ripping, tearing, pulling, wrenching or otherwise disconnecting the limbs from a living or dead being. It has been practiced upon human beings as a form of capital punishment, especially in connection with ...

- a form of execution ** Hanged, drawn and quartered - another form of execution **

Quartering (heraldry) Quartering is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. Typically, a quartering consists of a division into four ...

Coning and quartering In analytical chemistry, sub-sampling is a procedure by which a small, representative sample is taken from a larger sample. Good sub-sampling technique becomes important when the large sample is not homogeneous. Techniques Coning and quartering ...

a process for splitting of an analytic sample * Quartering, a method in the assaying of gold; see *The

Quartering Act The Quartering Acts were two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of Britain's North American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. Each of the Quartering Acts was an amendment to the Mutiny A ...

s, requiring American civilians to provide living spaces for British soldiers prior to the American Revolution

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