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QUARTER	The part of a vessel's side between the after part of the main chains and the stern. The quarter of a yard is between the slings and the yard-arm. The wind is said to be quartering , when it blows in a line between that of the keel and the beam and abaft the latter.
QUARTER-BLOCK	A block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side the slings, for the clewlines and sheets to reeve through.
QUARTER-DECK	That part of the upper deck abaft the main-mast.
QUARTER-MASTER	A petty officer in a man-of-war, who attends the helm and binnacle at sea, and watches for signals, &c., when in port.
QUICK-WORK	That part of a vessel's side which is above the chain-wales and decks. So called in ship-building.
QUILTING	A coating about a vessel, outside, formed of ropes woven together.
QUIVIS	Anyone or anything, whoever or whatever.
QUOIN	A wooden wedge for the breech of a gun to rest upon.