Astern vs Quartering - What's the difference?
astern | quartering |
(label) Beyond the stern when viewed from aboard.
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, title= (nautical) behind
* If one ship is following another, the first is astern when viewed from the second.
The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
(heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
(heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
(architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
(nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
(engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
(Webster 1913)
In nautical terms the difference between astern and quartering
is that astern is behind while quartering is coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.As an adverb astern
is beyond the stern when viewed from aboard.As a verb quartering is
present participle of quarter.As a noun quartering is
the act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.astern
English
Adverb
(en adverb)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
