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Cat :: Cat (n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade..

Picayune :: Picayune (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

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..

Fusarole :: Fusarole (n.) A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture..

Waist :: Waist (n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship..

Quarterly :: Quarterly (a.) Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting..

Circumspectness :: Circumspectness (n.) Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe..

Astragal :: Astragal (n.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle..

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

Back :: Back (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.

Cardecu :: Cardecu (n.) A quarter of a crown.

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note..

Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural.

Corner :: Corner (n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part..

Statoblast :: Stative (a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters..

Corner :: Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.

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