See fast.
·v Tenacious; retentive. II. Fast ·noun The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. III. Fast ·v ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A rope, cablet, or chain by which a vessel is secured to a wharf; and termed bow, head, breast, quar...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vt Friendship; amity; concord. II. Quarter ·vi To <<Lodge>>; to have a temporary residence. III. ...
This term literally implies one quarter of the ship, but in common parlance applies to 45° abaft the...
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. ...
See painter. ...
A rope or chain for securing a vessel by the bow. (See fast.) ...
A large rope or chain, used to confine a ship's broadside to a wharf or quay, or to some other ship,...
Immovable, or high and dry. ...
A ship which, in nautical parlance, "has legs." ...
Quick in going about. ...
A rope or chain employed to fasten the head of a ship or boat to a wharf or buoy, or to some other v...
A rope; also the order to the people aloft, when shaking out reefs, &c., to suspend the operation. I...
A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms. ...
A word generally used for tying or securing ropes. To fasten. ...
A hawser carried out to secure a vessel to a quay, mole, or anchor buried on shore. ...
A hawser carried out to some fixed object to keep a vessel steady in a tide-way, or in preparation f...
A rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c. ...
·- An <<Ovolo>>. ...
·noun That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. ...
·add. ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boar...
·adj Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; — said of portraitures. ...
An ox cheek. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
See quarter, last. ...
When the moon appears exactly as a half-moon, 90° from the sun towards the east, she is in the first...
When the moon appears exactly as a half-moon, and her angular distance from the sun 90°, but towards...
Artificial galleries; a carved ornament near the stern of those vessels which have no quarter-galler...
A list containing the different stations to which the officers and crew are quartered in time of act...
Blocks fitted under the quarters of a yard, on each side the slings, for the topsail-sheets, topsail...
Any boat is thus designated which is hung to davits over the ship's quarter. ...
One-half of a hogshead, or 28 imperial gallons. ...
Long pieces of painted canvas, extended on the outside of the quarter-netting, from the upper part o...
Pieces of iron or timber with sheaves or blocks at their outer ends, projecting from a vessel's quar...
That part of the upper deck which is abaft the main-mast. (See decks, and jack's quarter-deck.) ...
Those officers more remarkable for etiquette than for a knowledge of seamanship. ...
Punctilious, severe. ...
See flood. ...
A sort of balcony with windows on the quarters of large ships. (See gallery.) ...
A Barbary cruiser. ...
A small guard posted in front of each battalion in camp. ...
See gunner. ...
From the quarter-deck to the poop. ...
A dockyard officer employed to superintend a certain number of workmen. ...
A petty officer, appointed to assist the master and mates in their several duties, as stowing the ho...
The places allotted on the quarters for the stowage of hammocks, which, in action, serve to arrest m...
Projections at the after-part of the quarter, forming the boundaries of the galleries. ...
A subdivision of the compass-card, equal to 2° 48′ 45″ of the circle. ...
Those made in the after side-timbers, and especially in round-stern vessels. They are inconvenient f...
Narrow moulded planks, reaching from the stern to the gangway, and serving as a fence to the quarter...
The engraved index on the base-rings of cannon in quarter degrees from point-blank to two or three d...
Are supports attached to a yard or other spar at one or both sides of (but not in) its centre. ...
Strong iron stanchions in a square-sterned vessel, connecting the main-rail with the taffrail; used ...
A strong tackle fixed occasionally upon the quarter of the main-yard, to hoist heavy bodies in or ou...
The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. ...
A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...
Blowing upon a vessel's quarter, abaft the main-shrouds. ...
See water-shot ...
An uncertain and shuffling conduct. ...
Said of a ship on shore. ...
The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...
Being in that position with regard to a ship, as to be included in the angles which diverge from rig...
See netting. ...
A term implying the executive in general; officers whose places in action are there, in command. ...
Is the head of that department of the army which has charge of the quartering, encamping, embarking,...
To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along. ...
, or top-gallant bulwarks. See quarter-boards. ...
See quarter, first. ...
A phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer. ...
Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...