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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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• post master general

  The prime minister, who has the patronage of all posts and places. ...

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• General

  ·adj The public; the people; the vulgar. II. General ·adj As a whole; in gross; for the most part. ...

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• general

  The commander of an army: the military rank corresponding to the naval one of admiral. The title inc...

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• Master

  ·noun A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy. II. Master ·vi To be skillful; to <<Excel>>. III. Ma...

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• master

  The epithet for the captain or commander of a merchant vessel. When England first became a maritime ...

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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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• Attorney-general

  ·noun The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-execut...

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• Brigadier general

  ·- An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is...

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• Governor general

  ·- A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, ...

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• Lieutenant general

  ·- An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. ...

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• Major general

  ·- An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of...

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• Paymaster-general

  ·add. ·- In the United States army, an officer of the rank of brigadier general, who commands the pa...

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• Postmaster-general

  ·noun The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the post...

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• Postmasters-general

  ·pl of Postmaster-general. ...

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• Solicitor-general

  ·noun The second law officer in the government of Great Britain; also, a similar officer under the U...

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• States-general

  ·noun In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers. II. States-general ·noun ...

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• receiver general

  A prostitute. ...

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• general treat

  A general treat is a treat of a glass of liquor given by a person in a tavern to the whole company p...

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• advocate general

  An officer of the High Court of Admiralty, whose duty it is to appear for the lord high-admiral in t...

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• captain-general

  The highest army rank. ...

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• general average

  A claim made upon the owners of a ship and her cargo, when the property of one or more has been sacr...

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• general breezo

  See breezo. ...

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• general officers

  All those above the rank of a colonel. ...

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• general orders

  The orders issued by the commander-in-chief of the forces. ...

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• general ship

  Where persons unconnected with each other load goods on board, in contradistinction to a chartered s...

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• lieutenant-general

  The officer taking the next place to a general, ranking with vice-admiral. ...

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• major-general

  The next in rank below the lieutenant-general. ...

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• Baggage master

  ·- One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. ...

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• Harbor master

  ·- An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. ...

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• Master vibrator

  ·add. ·- In an internal-combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator...

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• Mint-master

  ·noun The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively. ...

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• Wreck-master

  ·noun A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, ·etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck. ...

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• gentleman's master

  A highway robber, because he makes a gentleman obey his commands, i.e. stand and deliver. ...

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• kyrk-master

  church-warden. N. ...

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• attendant master

  A dockyard official. (See master-attendant.) ...

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• ballast-master

  A person appointed to see the port-regulations in respect to ballast carried out. ...

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• barrack-master

  The officer placed in charge of a barrack. ...

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• beach-master

  A superior officer, captain, appointed to superintend disembarkation of an attacking force, who hold...

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• harbour-master

  An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...

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• ice-master

  A pilot, or man of experience, for the Arctic Sea. ...

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• master-attendant

  An officer in the royal dockyards appointed to assist in the fitting or dismantling, removing or sec...

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• master mariner

  Shipmaster or captain of a merchant vessel. ...

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• master-shipwright

  The chief superintendent in the building and repairing of ships in the royal dockyards. ...

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• prize-master

  The officer to whom a prize is given in charge to carry her into port. ...

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• vendue master

  A commercial and marine auctioneer. ...

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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-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-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-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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• General Post Office

  On the west side of King Edward Street, in Farringdon Ward Within. The chief office in place of the ...

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• master and commander

  A title which, in 1814, was simplified to commander, the next degree above lieutenant; he ranks with...

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• master-at-arms

  In former times was an officer appointed to command the police-duty of a ship, to teach the crew the...

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• master of misrule

  An officer of an hour or two, when the hands were piped "to mischief." The lord or abbot of misrule ...

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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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• Old General Post Office

  On the east side of St. Martin le Grand (Street), between that street and Foster Lane. Erected 1825...

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• master of the mint

  A gardener. ...

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• master of the rolls

  A baker. ...

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• master of the wardrobe

  One who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor. ...

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• master of the fleet

  A master on board the commander-in-chief's ship, who has a general superintendence of the stores iss...

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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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• accountant-general of the navy

  Superintendent of pay and general accounts of the navy. ...

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• James, The General Epistle Of

  The author of this epistle was in all probability James the son of Alphaeus, and our Lord's brother ...

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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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• John, The First Epistle General Of

  There can be no doubt that the apostle John was the author of this epistle. It was probably written ...

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• master of a ship-of-war

  An officer appointed by the commissioners of the navy to attend to the navigating a ship under the d...

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• lee-side of the quarter-deck

  Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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