Quartered Definition

Quartered Sentence Examples

• Troops were first quartered in the town in 1768.

• His head was set on a spike and his quartered limbs were exposed in various places.

• His corpse, after suffering every indignity, was quartered by the public hangman, and burnt with dung by the Romanist soldiers.

• He was kindly noticed by Henry Hervey, a gay officer of noble family, who happened to be quartered there.

• Menteith certainly received the blood-money, boo yearly in land, and Wallace, like Montrose, was hanged, disembowelled and quartered (at London, August 1305).