A small guard posted in front of each battalion in camp.
·vt Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard. II. Guard ·noun To fasten by binding; to <<Gir...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
1) Heb. tabbah (properly a "cook," and in a secondary sense "executioner," because this office fell ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The duty performed by a body of men stationed to watch and protect any post against surprise. A divi...
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...
·noun The van or advanced body of an army. ·see <<Vanguard>>. ...
·- The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in...
·noun The guard or defense of a castle. II. Castle-guard ·noun A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant...
·noun A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack. ...
A shabby, mean fellow; a term said to be derived from a number of dirty, tattered roguish boys, who ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
n. Erroneous spelling of Garfish (q.v.). ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
The men who are stationed on the quarter-deck and poop, to work the after-sails. It was generally co...
A small proportion of any body of troops on the march, to whom the care of the whole baggage is assi...
A party detached to cover foragers, those wooding, watering, &c. ...
Synonymous with chain-wales. ...
A boat appointed to row the rounds amongst the ships of war in any harbour, &c., to observe that the...
Report of guard; a copy of which is delivered at the admiral's office by the officer of the last gua...
A corruption of the word gar-fish. ...
Curved bars of iron placed over the ornaments of a ship to defend them from damage. ...
A vessel of war appointed to superintend the marine affairs in a harbour, and to visit the ships whi...
Officers appointed to superintend the due observance of the quarantine regulations. ...
The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place. ...
That part of the army which brings up and protects the rear. ...
Custom-house officers employed to prevent fraud on the revenue in vessels arriving at, or departing ...
·- 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. ...
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 fast. ...
See flood. ...
A sort of balcony with windows on the quarters of large ships. (See gallery.) ...
A Barbary cruiser. ...
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 ...
The document rendered in by the guard-boat, of every vessel boarded during her hours of duty, with t...
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,...
The order for the marines of the guard to fall in, on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superi...
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. ...