Quartered

1. A shield is quartered when two or more coats of arms are marshalled to form one bearing. See Quartering 

Cross quarterly quartered couped, the ends sarcelled and reverted.

 2. The partition or division of a cross, or any other ordinary, into quarter tinctures. See also Cross Counter-crossed

3. The term will sometimes be encountered to depict a cross voided in the centre but is better blazoned  a cross quarterly pierced.  This charge has at times been variously blazoned a cross parted, a division of the field into nine equal parts formed in three rows, chequy of nine, five points squared orderly into four, a cross charged in the middle, or heart, with a point, and even four points made equal.