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Quarter
·vt Friendship; amity; concord.
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quarter
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Shot
·pl of Shot.
II. Shot ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Shoot.
III. Shot ·vt To load with shot, as a gun.
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shot
To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped....
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shot
Another pronunciation of the word scot, a reckoning.
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shot
All sorts of missiles to be discharged from fire-arms, those for great guns being mainly of iron; fo...
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moor quarter-shot, to
To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along.
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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-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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Anchor shot
·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
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Burrel shot
·- A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, ·etc., fired from a cannon at short range, ...
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Case shot
·- A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
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Flight-shot
·noun The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, — about the fifth of a mile.
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Headmold shot
·- ·Alt. of Headmould shot.
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Headmould shot
·- An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other...
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Masse shot
·noun A stroke made with the cue held vertically.
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Pot shot
·add. ·- Lit., a shot fired simply to fill the pot; hence, a shot fired at an animal or person when ...
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Shot samples
·add. ·- Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granul...
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Shot-clog
·noun A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, o...
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Shot-free
·adj Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
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Shot-proof
·adj Impenetrable by shot.
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Sight-shot
·noun Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.
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Snap shot
·add. ·- Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).
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Split shot
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Split stroke.
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buck-shot
n.
a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation.
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shanghai-shot
n.
a short distance,a stone's-throw.
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by a long shot
By a long way; by a great deal.
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slung-shot
An offensive weapon formed of two leaden or iron bullets fastened together by a piece of rope five o...
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shot-flagon
the host's pot, given where the guests have drank above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb.
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angel-shot
A ball cut in two, and the halves joined by a chain.
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canister shot
See case-shot, common.
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chain-shot
Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...
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chilled shot
Shot of very rapidly cooled cast-iron, i.e. cast in iron moulds, and thus found to acquire a hardnes...
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ear-shot
The distance or range of hearing.
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eye-shot
Within sight.
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fresh shot
A river swollen by rain or tributaries; it also signifies the falling down of any great river into t...
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gun-shot
Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...
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hail-shot
Small shot for cannon.
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hollow shot
Introduced principally for naval use before the horizontal firing of shells from guns became general...
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hot-shot
Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...
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long-shot
A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...
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musket-shot
Was the computed distance of 400 yards, now undergoing change.
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random shot
A shot, or coup perdu, made when the muzzle is highly elevated; the utmost range may be at an angle ...
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round shot
The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...
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sand-shot
Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...
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shot-locker
A compartment built up in the hold to contain the shot.
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shot-net
A mackerel-net.
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shot-plugs
Tapered cones to stop any sized shot-hole.
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shot-racks
Wooden frames fixed at convenient distances to contain shot.
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spent shot
A shot that has lost its penetrative velocity, yet capable of inflicting grave injury as long as it ...
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tier-shot
That kind of grapeshot which is secured in tiers by parallel iron discs.
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trundle-shot
An iron bolt 16 or 18 inches long, with sharp points, and a ball of lead just inside each head.
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water-shot
, or quarter-shot.
When a ship is moored, neither across the tide, nor right up and down, but quar...
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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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case-shot, common
Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a nu...
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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spherical case-shot
See shrapnel shell.
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top-gallant quarter-boards
, or top-gallant bulwarks.
See quarter-boards.
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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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throw of the shot
See dispart of the shot
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dispart, or throw of the shot
The difference between the semi-diameter of the base-ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the ri...
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flight of a shot
The trajectory formed between the muzzle of the gun and the first graze.
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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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