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Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..

Quartering :: Quartering (n.) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

Quartering :: Quartering (a.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object..

Cudgel :: Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon..

Quarterlies :: Quarterlies (pl. ) of Quarterl.

Garrison :: Garrison (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security..

Ember :: Ember (a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts..

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate..

Quarterage :: Quarterage (n.) A quarterly allowance.

Station :: Station (n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.

Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition..

Coomb :: Coomb (n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter..

Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp..

Gangway :: Gangway (v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist..

Quarterly :: Quarterly (a.) Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons..

Canton :: Canton (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops..

Quartered :: Quartered (imp. & p. p.) of Quartte.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850..

Hibernacle :: Hibernacle (n.) That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant..

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