jack's quarter-deck

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• Quarter-deck

  ·noun That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. ...

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• quarter-deck

  That part of the upper deck which is abaft the main-mast. (See decks, and jack's quarter-deck.) ...

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• quarter-deck nettings

  See netting. ...

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• quarter-deck officers

  A term implying the executive in general; officers whose places in action are there, in command. ...

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• Deck

  ·v A heap or store. II. Deck ·v The roof of a passenger car. III. Deck ·v A pack or set of playing...

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• Quarter

  ·vt Friendship; amity; concord. II. Quarter ·vi To <<Lodge>>; to have a temporary residence. III. ...

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• quarter

  This term literally implies one quarter of the ship, but in common parlance applies to 45° abaft the...

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• skip jacks

  Youngsters that ride horses on sale, horse- dealers boys. Also a plaything made for children with th...

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• whip jacks

  The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit...

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• slap-jacks

  Pancakes made of the whole size of the frying-pan or spider. A country girl formerly was not conside...

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• jack's alive

  A once popular sea-port dance. ...

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• walk the quarter-deck, to

  A phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer. ...

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• Half-deck

  ·noun ·see Half deck, under <<Deck>>. II. Half-deck ·noun A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat sh...

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• Turret deck

  ·add. ·- A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vesse...

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• Water deck

  ·- A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. ...

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• berth-deck

  The 'tween decks. ...

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• deck, to

  A word formerly in use for to trim, as "we deckt up our sails." ...

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• deck-beams

  See beams. ...

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• deck-cargo

  , otherwise deck-load (which see). ...

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• deck-cleats

  Pieces of wood temporarily nailed to the deck to secure objects in bad weather, as guns, deck-load, ...

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• deck-hook

  The compass timber bolted horizontally athwart a ship's bow, connecting the stem, timbers, and deck-...

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• deck-house

  An oblong-house on the deck of some merchantmen, especially east-country vessels, and latterly in pa...

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• deck-load

  Timber, casks, or other cargo not liable to damage from wet, stowed on the deck of merchant vessels....

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• deck-nails

  A kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form; they are single or double deck-na...

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• deck-pipe

  An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker. ...

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• deck-pumps

  In a steamer, are at the side of the vessel, worked with a lever by manual power, to supply addition...

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• deck-seam

  The interstices between the planks. ...

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• deck-sheet

  That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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• deck-stopper

  (See stopper of the cable.) A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or w...

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• deck-tackle

  A purchase led along the decks. ...

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• flush-deck

  A continued floor laid from the stem to the stern, upon one range, without any break. ...

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• forecastle-deck

  The fore-part of the upper deck at a vessel's bows. ...

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• fore-deck

  That part from the fore-mast to the bows. ...

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• grating-deck

  A light movable deck, similar to the hatch-deck, but with open gratings. ...

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• gun-deck

  See decks. ...

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• half-deck

  A space between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage and the fore-part of the quarter-deck. In the...

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• hatch-deck

  Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. ...

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• hurricane-deck

  A light deck over the saloon of some steamers. ...

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• mess-deck

  The place where a ship's crew mess. ...

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• spar-deck

  This term is loosely applied, though properly it signifies a temporary deck laid in any part of a ve...

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• under deck

  The floor of a cabin, or 'tween decks. ...

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• upper deck

  The highest of those decks which are continued throughout the whole length of a ship without falls o...

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• Quarter round

  ·- An <<Ovolo>>. ...

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• Quarter-saw

  ·add. ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boar...

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• Three-quarter

  ·adj Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; — said of portraitures. ...

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• staring quarter

  An ox cheek. ...

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• last quarter

  See quarter, last. ...

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• quarter, first

  When the moon appears exactly as a half-moon, 90° from the sun towards the east, she is in the first...

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• quarter, last

  When the moon appears exactly as a half-moon, and her angular distance from the sun 90°, but towards...

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• quarter-badge

  Artificial galleries; a carved ornament near the stern of those vessels which have no quarter-galler...

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• quarter-bill

  A list containing the different stations to which the officers and crew are quartered in time of act...

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• quarter-blocks

  Blocks fitted under the quarters of a yard, on each side the slings, for the topsail-sheets, topsail...

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• quarter-boat

  Any boat is thus designated which is hung to davits over the ship's quarter. ...

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• quarter-cask

  One-half of a hogshead, or 28 imperial gallons. ...

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• quarter-cloths

  Long pieces of painted canvas, extended on the outside of the quarter-netting, from the upper part o...

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• quarter-davits

  Pieces of iron or timber with sheaves or blocks at their outer ends, projecting from a vessel's quar...

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• quarter-deckers

  Those officers more remarkable for etiquette than for a knowledge of seamanship. ...

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• quarter-deckish

  Punctilious, severe. ...

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• quarter-fast

  See fast. ...

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• quarter-flood

  See flood. ...

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• quarter-gallery

  A sort of balcony with windows on the quarters of large ships. (See gallery.) ...

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• quarter-galley

  A Barbary cruiser. ...

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• quarter-guard

  A small guard posted in front of each battalion in camp. ...

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• quarter-gunner

  See gunner. ...

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• quarter-ladder

  From the quarter-deck to the poop. ...

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• quarter-man

  A dockyard officer employed to superintend a certain number of workmen. ...

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• quarter-master

  A petty officer, appointed to assist the master and mates in their several duties, as stowing the ho...

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• quarter-nettings

  The places allotted on the quarters for the stowage of hammocks, which, in action, serve to arrest m...

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• quarter-pieces

  Projections at the after-part of the quarter, forming the boundaries of the galleries. ...

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• quarter-point

  A subdivision of the compass-card, equal to 2° 48′ 45″ of the circle. ...

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• quarter-ports

  Those made in the after side-timbers, and especially in round-stern vessels. They are inconvenient f...

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• quarter-rails

  Narrow moulded planks, reaching from the stern to the gangway, and serving as a fence to the quarter...

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• quarter-sights

  The engraved index on the base-rings of cannon in quarter degrees from point-blank to two or three d...

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• quarter-slings

  Are supports attached to a yard or other spar at one or both sides of (but not in) its centre. ...

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• quarter-stanchions

  Strong iron stanchions in a square-sterned vessel, connecting the main-rail with the taffrail; used ...

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• quarter-tackle

  A strong tackle fixed occasionally upon the quarter of the main-yard, to hoist heavy bodies in or ou...

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• quarter-timbers

  The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. ...

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• quarter-watch

  A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...

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• quarter-wind

  Blowing upon a vessel's quarter, abaft the main-shrouds. ...

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• quarter-shot

  See water-shot ...

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• lee-side of the quarter-deck

  Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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• deck-beam knees

  The same as lodging-knees. ...

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• deck standard-knees

  Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...

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• double deck-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• on deck there!

  The cry to call attention from aloft or below. ...

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• on the quarter

  Being in that position with regard to a ship, as to be included in the angles which diverge from rig...

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• quarter-master general

  Is the head of that department of the army which has charge of the quartering, encamping, embarking,...

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• moor quarter-shot, to

  To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along. ...

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• top-gallant quarter-boards

  , or top-gallant bulwarks. See quarter-boards. ...

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• mate of the lower-deck

  An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...

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• mate of the main-deck

  The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...

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• first quarter of the moon

  See quarter, first. ...

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• running out, and running in, the lower deck guns

  The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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