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Cantonment :: Cantonment (n.) A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters..

Trimestrial :: Trimestrial (a.) Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly..

Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

Right-about :: Right-about (n.) A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about..

Frost-blite :: Frost-blite (n.) The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).

Quart :: Quart (n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth..

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..

Breasting :: Breasting (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel..

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

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds..

Run :: Run (n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter..

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

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural.

Marshal :: Marshal (v. t.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement..

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..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Friendship; amity; concord.

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

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

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

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..

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