unquartered
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An heir may bear his father's arms unquartered, but he is not entitled by the common law of arms to bear his mother's so."
- "John's father, also John, whose seal was seen somewhere by Streatfeild (in whose MSS. there is a drawing of the seal) used a plain unquartered shield of the Pashley crowned and double-queued lion[…]"
- "unquartered soldiers"
Etymology
From un- + quartered.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un