quartering

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.

For 11 years, Tillman was mired in the “spiritual quartering,” to borrow a phrase from the philosopher Simone Weil, of this soul-sucking work.

A team of volunteer cooks is preparing lunch for 200 senior citizens, cutting cornbread, tossing spinach salad, quartering oranges.

No one is concerned today about the quartering of troops or the establishment of well-regulated militias.