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Point :: Point (n.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes..

Quartermaster :: Quartermaster (n.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies..

Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

Larboard :: Larboard (a.) On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter..

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

Repeater :: Repeater (n.) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters..

Barracoon :: Barracoon (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys..

Pistole :: Pistole (n.) The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40..

Belgravian :: Belgravian (a.) Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic..

Halfpace :: Halfpace (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

Tap :: Tap (n.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo..

Salary :: Salary (n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire..

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.

Large :: Large (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter..

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

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

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..

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