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Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.

Ward :: Ward (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city..

Quartering :: Quartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quartte.

Quarterly :: Quarterly (adv.) By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly..

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..

Lobby :: Lobby (n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

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..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..

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

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..

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

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

Rack :: Rack (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

Quateron :: Quateron (n.) See 2d Quarteron.

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated..

Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90�, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal..

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

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..

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..

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