See quadrant.
·noun The fourth part; the quarter. II. Quadrant ·noun The quarter of a circle, or of the circumfer...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A reflecting instrument used to take the altitude above the horizon of the sun, moon, or stars at se...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, ·etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of t...
A kind of stereographic projection on the plane of the equinoctial; the eye is supposed in one of th...
The old name of Jacob's cross-staff. ...
See quadrant. ...
To kiss the gunner's daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The name of the gun to which boys were married, or lashed, to be punished. ...
Is shorter and flatter than the ordinary handspike, and is shod with iron at the point, so that it b...
A petty officer appointed to assist the gunner. ...
In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the breech, which generally flies upward. ...
An old rating for the man who made the cartridge-bags. ...
See yeoman. ...
Men who have been trained in a gunnery ship, and thereby become qualified to instruct others in that...