quarter-blocks

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• blocks

  The several transverse pieces or logs of timber, piled in plane, on which a ship is built, or to pla...

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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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• back-blocks

  n. 1) The far interior ofAustralia, and away from settled country. Land in Australia isdivided on t...

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• bee-blocks

  Pieces of hard wood bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through...

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• bilge-blocks

  See sliding bilge-blocks. ...

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• blocks, fixed

  See fixed blocks. ...

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• bullock-blocks

  Blocks secured under the top-mast trestle-trees, which receive the top-sail ties through them, in or...

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• cant-blocks

  The large purchase-blocks used by whalers to cant the whales round under the process of flensing. ...

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• cheek-blocks

  Usually fitted to the fore-topmast head, for the purpose of leading the jib-stay, halliards, &c. ...

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• clump-blocks

  Those that are made thicker or stronger than ordinary blocks. (See block, tack-and-sheet.) ...

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• fixed blocks

  Solid pieces of oak let through the sides of the ship, and fitted with sheaves, to lead the tacks, s...

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• hanging-blocks

  These are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the top-mast rigging...

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• hawse-blocks

  Bucklers, or pieces of wood made to fit over the hawse-holes when at sea, to back the hawse-plugs. ...

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• jeer-blocks

  Are twofold or threefold blocks, through which the jeer-falls are rove, and applied to hoist, suspen...

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• jewel-blocks

  Are attached to eye-bolts on those yards where studding-sails are hoisted, and carry these sails to ...

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• keel-blocks

  Short log ends of timbers on which the keel of a vessel rests while building or repairing, affording...

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• leading-blocks

  The several blocks used for guiding the direction of any purchase, as hook, snatch, or tail blocks. ...

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• pedestal-blocks

  Synonymous with plumber-blocks (which see). ...

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• plumber-blocks

  These, in a marine steam-engine, are Y's, wherein are fixed the bushes, in which the shafts or pinio...

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• purchase-blocks

  All blocks virtually deserve this name, but it is distinctively given to those used in moving heavy ...

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• running-blocks

  Those which are made fast to the running rigging or tackles. ...

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• span-blocks

  Blocks seized into each bight of a strap, long enough to go across a cap, and allow the blocks to ha...

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• speck-blocks

  See flense, to. ...

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• transporting-blocks

  Two snatch-blocks, fitted one on each side above the taffrail, to admit a hawser, when transporting ...

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• two-blocks

  The same as chock-a-block (which see). ...

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• Quarter round

  ·- An <<Ovolo>>. ...

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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-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-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-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-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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• iron-bound blocks

  Those which are fitted with iron strops. ...

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• sliding bilge-blocks

  Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her. ...

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• jack's quarter-deck

  The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...

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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-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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• 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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• first quarter of the moon

  See quarter, first. ...

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• walk the quarter-deck, to

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

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• lee-side of the quarter-deck

  Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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