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Handygripe :: Handygripe (n.) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting..

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

Frigate-built :: Frigate-built (a.) Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

Semidome :: Semidome (n.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere..

Hutch :: Hutch (v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters..

Nail :: Nail (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard..

Broadside :: Broadside (n.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris..

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

Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

Quatrefoil :: Quatrefoil (n.) Same as Quarterfoil.

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

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

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

Dingdong :: Dingdong (n.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

Quarteron :: Quarteron (n.) Alt. of Quarteroo.

Compote :: Compote (n.) A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears..

Part :: Part (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.

Three-quarter :: Three-quarter (a.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.

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..

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